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over the Patriots, a five time NFL five different teams
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Kansas City in Oakland. And now he's here to teach
me a little football, To learn me some football. I
don't want it only Fucky Brooks. Hello, Buck, how are you?
I'm good. I'm good, I'm good. It's great to hear
your voice. Great to have you with us. Pick us
right now. I guess someone up above fields as if
you need to hold my hand and help me a

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little bit with football. Right here, I love it. I
love it. I love having you here because I tell
you why. I want to pick your brain, and I
tell you what I mean by that. I'm a pig.
I thank you. It's so easy for me to just
ramble on and talk about football. But you know, when
you played the game, and you certainly did play the game,
you played it very well. I think there's a different

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aspect of different learning curve and I want to throw
it at you. It's opening day, and uh, the first
thing I'll ask you, what is it like opening day
when you're giving it up. I think the emotions are
a little different depending on where you are in your career.
I think if you're rookie's your first time playing against
the dream come true. So the first part of the
game is you kind of walking around like you at Disneyland.

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You're kind of looking at the rise, looking at the players,
looking at the players that you grew up watching and admiring,
and you on the field with them. If you're a veteran,
it's the time to start playing. It's business. It's asins
as usual. You begin to get into your routine, you're
ready to play, and you understand the urgency that's needed.
To be a part of a team that wins and
wins and peace at the high level. You know, I'm

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sure Buck, during your career you see a young Buck,
a rookie come in who's had to stellar career in
the college ranks, and he's thinks he's all that and
it comes to NFL. So it gets knocked down a
peg because the players are bigger, the players are stronger,
the players are faster. Have you noticed that during your career? Yeah,
I think everyone has to understand when you played the

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pro level, everybody has been a star. They were the
best player in their high school. They're likely were one
of their best players in college. And so now you
have the National Football League, where's the collection of the
best of the best, And so you have to kind
of figure out how you fit in. And it could
be humbling at times to now not be a star player,
but to be a role player, and you really have

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to struggle just to maintain that roleps I opened it
for a lot of people as they began to make
their starts and in the field careers. Bucky Brooks, we're
gonna go through the games today and Mike harm is
gonna join us. And I went number three. So we'll
have a lot of fun doing that, and I'm sure
we'll get you a take on these ball games. But
before we do a couple of more things, I want
to run by you. A lot of the players and
over the years I've been doing talk radio and they say, ah,

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you know, I don't listen to talk radio. I don't
care what you have to say. But as soon as
I would say something that would kind of raise their anger,
and I show up in the in the locker room. Boy,
I heard about it. I really did. So tell me
the truth, dude. The players really listen and talk about
what's heard on the radio during talk radio, And uh,
what do they think of guys like like myself, a

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non player like me discussing the game of football. Uh,
the man, I listened to it directly, But there's a
friend or family member or someone who has let them
know what has been said about them. Now with the
explosion of social media, Uh, they get in real time
because fans tweet at you sometimes. Uh at a radio stasition,

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we may tag somebody and it comes up in their feet.
So there were the where now a lot of it is. Um.
Everyone is always looking for an edge we're always looking
for the doubts. We're always looking for a reason to
to prove our point. And so when you come in
there and you make those comments, uh, some of it
is like feeling like, okay, you're hating on me, you

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don't like my game. And so it's looking for something
to be motivated to play at that level because everyone
who plays, particularly football, everyone plays at a high level,
has a little half crazy in them, So they're looking
for something to be motivated to be a little edgy.
And then to your point about not playing, look, it
factors into it a little bit, but it depends on

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the knowledge that the person who's making the criticism or
the conversation bringing to the table. Meaning you don't have
to play. But if you have a vast um level
of experience and knowledge when it comes to interacting with players,
knowing the game, and you can kind of hold your
own in one of those high level conversations, then it's
not a problem. It's only a problem when there's someone
who's talking and you know that they don't know exactly

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what they're talking exactly. Okay, I don't know if you're
pointing a finger at me, but that's okay. I get it.
That's okay. Now the question I have now, but this
betting has become such a big deal. I think one
of the reasons why the NFL has been so popular
and is the nation's support. It really is. Right now,
fantasy football took control and now the wagering and things
like that. Like given yesterday's ball game, I think was

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it Alabama and the college rights was favorable like some
forty four points. It didn't happen, but that they were
and they were lucky they went by a point. But
my question is just two coaches ever discussed a betting
line will coming to a meeting and say, hey, look,
you guys are underdogs by two touchdowns. I mean, you
know things like that. Is that ever brought up at
a meeting? Uh, necessarily when it comes to the line,

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But they were talking about like, no one believes that
you guys can go and knock it off. They think
that this team is gonna come in and just walk
all over us. And so what we gotta do is
make sure that we bring our best effort. We've looked
at the tape and we feel like we have an
advantage that we can take, take, take exploit. But the
outside world may not what it is. So what we're
gonna do is you all work this week and we'll
show them all Sundays. Because the NFL is different than

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college because it is a any given Sunday league. Any
team can win. And remember we talked earlier, this is
the best of the best. And sometimes just because their
team isn't good doesn't mean they don't have good players. Okay,
I'm gonna go back on the motivational rank. Okay, people
always said have a chip on their shoulder, and at
the Baker Mayfield situation, he's playing against his former team today,

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you know, the chip on the shoulder situation. Does that
work in the pros? Give me an example. I was,
and I hate to tell you this because you'll laugh
at me, but I was a manager in high school. Okay,
I didn't play. I was a manager, but I worked
my way up through the ranks. I kind of was
a pr guy in the pros. I hung around with you,
so I kind of got a feeling. I know in
high school on the bullet and boarder was a big deal. Alright,
motivational fact that someone says something in the local paper,

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you know that they use it as as a motivational
tool in college maybe to some extent. Does that work
in the pros? Do you need like a bullet and
board for motivation in the pros? I wouldn't think so.
I been around pros and I've never even seen a
bullet And believe me now, I mean you've talked about
very competitive people, and so you're looking for any little
thing to get you going. And so whether it's a tweet,

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a quote, uh, maybe someone forgetting. I think years ago
Jeff forget, Jeff Fisher couldn't name the players names nor
their numbers, and so the team is like, do not
know who we are? And so you're always looking for
a hint of disrespect to this you going because very
very competitive people, guys who have dog mentality, So they're

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looking for anything to get them going, to get them
sparked up. Each tweet. Wow, okay, tell us about one
of the saddest days probably around the NFL, is cut
down day. What does that like? I've said that on
Hard Knocked several times. Dan Campbell with the Detroit Lions
did it rather business like, you know, he just said,
come on in, I wish you well, you know you're

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on your way and that's it. Some of the coaches
really take a person. I thought that Dan Camp was
a little cold with that. It depends, you know, Like
I've had it both ways. I've had a coach him
and that this is probably the last time you ever
played a game, and then I've had other guys offer
feedback as to why, um, you were cut, why you
didn't make it. But there's still some things down the

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road for you and just leak if you correct these issues. UM.
I think for coaches as hard because you have to
remember your bringing all these players and if you get
to attached to them, it can hid when it comes
to players I want to put on the team. So
some guys opt to keep some space between themselves and

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the players. Others get really tight with their players, and it
it does make it very very difficult when you have
to say goodbye. All right, Last, but not least, I
appreciate just picking your brain a little bit because these
are the things I think that the average Joe would
like to know, and they could get it from you
because you've been there, done that, you played the game. Now.
I assume you watch some of those college games yesterday.

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What do you take away from I know your Dame game.
Lucy to Marshall, I mean that that shouldn't happen, right, Yeah,
it shouldn't happen. But they're also coming off an emotional
game against Ohio State. So it's really a trap game
because they poward the entire offseason into getting ready for
Ohio State. We talked about the disrespect card that was played,
so from an emotional standpoint, they were going to be

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a little flat coming off the loss to Ohio State.
The problem is now you play a Marshall team who
is on the outside, you would never give them the
respect because the average fans would be like, it's Marshall,
they should always be Marshall. But inside Marshall has good players,
they have a good coach, They have returning players, older

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players that can make it problematic. And so you can
tell your team all week, hey, this is a good
Marshall plan Marshall team, But then everyone else that is like, yeah,
they're not in good and so sometimes it's hard to
bring that a game to the table. And then you
have a coach who still transitioning into being a head coach,
and so it takes some time. Remember years ago, Nick

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Saban lost to maybe a Louisiana Lafayette team. It happens,
and so Marcus Freeman have to figure out where to
get it together. But as part of the growing pain,
sometimes we have transition at the top. Right. Well, if
you're a player with that no Youre Dame team right
now with Owen two against your record, I mean you
basically saying we finished. The season is over. I mean,
and that's why I think the expansion of the college

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football playoffs could be such a good thing, because your
life is not over in September if you lose two games. Yeah,
that's the tough part of the way Notre Dame does
their thing as an independent. They don't have a conference
championship to play for, so it's all and nothing there.
And that's always been Notre Dame's deal. Like their players

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don't get bowl rings, they only get watches, So unless
it's a national championship and so it is, it is
all nothing there. And so yeah, it is a little deflating.
So now the job for the coaches comes, here's what
we can play for. Let's reset our goals, let's see
what we can accomplish. Maybe we can get into a
New Year's six Bowl. In those things, but when you

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when you always shoot for the national title and you
lose early, it does change the way that your players
are motivated for the rest of the year. Right and
Alabama yesterday, I think, as I said, I think it's
like forty four point favorites. They squeaked by yesterday against
the Texas Longhorns in Austin yesterday. Nineteen last minute field goal,
fifteen penalties. It's unheard of. And you know what I

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say this, there's no preseason in college and that's why
there's a little bit of rust I would think early on,
and I know they played those big games early on
for TV, but there's still a lot of rusta on there.
At least the NFL has a little preseason to sort
of get that rust off. There's a great point. That's why,

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UH initially betting or trying to figure out who's good
in college football, it's kind of pointless because you don't
know until they start playing. With all of the transfers
and all the changing destinations of the top players throughout
the off season, you never know what the team is
going to look like until they start playing. And then
when you think about just old school football stuff, going

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through training camp, to get your team ready and then
running out for their first game. Practices are different in games,
and so some of the things that they've done well
in practice, for whatever reason, when the game happens, the
lights come on, the crowd is there, they don't execute.
And so it normally takes three or four games until
you know exactly who your team is, they are, all

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their issues, and then they can begin to play really
really good football. Yeah, and moving to the NFL. But
I'm gonna talk about the games, will break down all
of them today. You know many teams have rested their
status in the preseason. How is that going to affect
the games? In particular? I would have to say tackling,
that's gonna be a big issue because when you don't
practice life tackling and you're going in for the money

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as it do today, I think it's gonna show. I
really do. Yeah, it'll be an issue. You see a
lot of mistakes. I think the things that you look
for in the first couple of games of every NFL season,
well actually college or NFL season, we call them to
don't beat ourselves. So turnovers are always big, big plays

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allowed because you have guys that bust coverages. They don't
tackle on the perimeter, it becomes an issue. Uh penalties,
presna penalties, false stars, encroachments, silly penalties that are unfortunate,
lack of nations that we're just giving away yours. And
then the mistakes in the kicking game because you can't
practice special teams live the first couple of weeks. You'll

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see return touchdowns, you'll see block kicks, You'll see people
have issues in the kicking game because you haven't had
a chance to do it in real circumstances in games,
and so you'll see some mistakes. And because of that,
you may see a handful of upsets because teams aren't
ready to go, because they're not peaked in prime, ready

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Is the quarterback to play? Well, that's color right up,
he's the super Bowl Chimp. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm aye
from By the way, Buck, did you hear the intro
to this show at the top of the hour? You know,

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uh is Bucky Brooks super Bowl chap five time all pro?
But a bang but a bank And by the way,
Andy Furman, I mean, it's embarrassingly it's I mean, couple,
you know, because they say, like I pushed, I pushed
the card. It's safe way something. You know, I'm saying,
give me a little a little boost. But you know, look,
everybody has an ego. But to be slapped around like that,

(16:04):
I don't know. And by the way, I get a
tweet right now. I get a tweet right now from
Justin and Cincinnati. How lucky I have to have Bucky
Brooks as a co host. He's so intelligent, knows his
football even though he went to North Carolina, So I
don't know what he meant by that. But I don't
know what is Carolina hater? I mean, that's basically what

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he is. But it's did you by the way, before
we get into this game here, I want to get
into it with you. Did you happen to see the
video that Lunatoko went on the field yesterday at l
s U. What was that all about? He's just standing
there with his hands on his hips in the end zone. Wow?
Must it must have been a wager. Maybe they have

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some adult beverages available for purchase at the stadium too.
But but the one thing that really ticked me off.
I mean, look, he didn't harm anybody. I'm sure he
didn't have a weapon. He's standing in the end zone.
Uh at the L s U game against Southern and
L s U ro routed them yesterday standing with his
hands on his hips and like three cops came and
they tackled him and they put his hands but just
walk come off the field? Will you please talk about

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police brutality? There wasn't its best leave the kid alone?
What did he do? I know he should be on
the field, but they tackled him that his hand being
on his back and it looked like pro wrestling. Oh jeez,
I just don't well, you gotta you gotta think of
it this way, and would you rather the cops tackle
him or play on the field tackle them, because we've
seen guys where times where guys are running to the

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field and football players have taken uh the visilanity justice
their own hands, and so I think it might be
better end a second. Good move, Good move, They're okay.
Let's go back to Thursday and at the NFL Night Open,
Bill's story one tent over the Rams House Surprise, where
you with that Bill's domination or the Rams in that game?
Real surprise. I knew the Buffalo Bills were good, Uh,

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I didn't know that they would put up deck in
the game. And the fact that they dominated the Rams
with without even playing great. You know, they had three
or four turnovers. They weren't like flawless in their execution,
but you saw a team that was hungry. You saw
the impact of von Miller has had on the defense,
not only because of his own ability gets to the
sacker that to to produce sacks and to get hits

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on the quarterback, but his ability to help their young
pass rushers kind of find their way. Buffalo is real
and Josh Allens is terrific. Right, I'm hearing the term
now buck super Bowl hangover. Now, back in the day
after the fourting Night has won Super Bowl with Bill
roy Wall, she called in Joe Montana. He told, hey, look,
I don't want to see your facing all the commercials.

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You know what he meant was, I believe keep doing
what you got, what got you here, because it only
gets harder when the targets on your back. Now it's
a different era right now, there's no doubt about that.
And Sean McVeigh, he was actually in a commercial with
his quarterback for Top Gun Maverick. He's got a podcast
rolling on now. He sits for all the interviews. Obviously
he's a coach. But this is a new challenge. I mean,

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is there such a thing as a super Bowl hangover? Yeah?
The super Bowl hangover is real. It's a couple of things. Um,
there can be some distractions that prevent you from working
as hard, if not harder, than you did the year before.
And so when everyone has success, everyone wants to take

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advantage of all the spoils that comes along with that success.
So that's one thing that the coach has to manage.
The second thing, and maybe the hardest part, is you
now become the measuring stick for every team that you play,
doesn't matter how good or how bad they are. When
they are lined up against the Super Bowl champions, the
defending Super Bowl champions, they're going to bring their a
game because at the end of that coaches like you say, hey, guys,

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we went against the Super Bowl champions. Here's where we
are when it comes to being one of the elite
teams in the league. And so they have to get
ready to handle all the energy that the opponents have.
And it's not just one game to be from week one, two,
week eighteen that they will be viewed as the team
that everyone is measuring themselves against. Interesting. You know, it's

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funny because I would say, and I haven't heard much
talk about this, that can we blame that loss on
Matthew Stafford. I mean, here's the guy at three I
N T S. He had seventeen picks last year. He
was a dismal twenty nine forty one from only two
undred and forty yards. You know, I just think they
could say, maybe his timing wasn't there, maybe the elbow

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problem is becoming a problem there. But I just said,
can you blame this loss on Matthew Stafford. No, I
mean he didn't play great, but um, you can't put
it all on them. The three turnovers always put them
behind the eight ball. But I believe they had bigger issues.
They had a tough times slowing down the Buffalo Bills.
The Bills were able to do whatever they wanted to do.

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They found a way to push the ball deep down
the field. Uh, they couldn't stop and contain Josh Allen
when they needed to. And then defensively, um, Buffalo Bills
had the opportunity to generate a lot of pressure on
the quarterback. And so there are a lot of issues
that played. The Ram's gotta fix their offensive line. They
probably need to be a little more committed to the
running game and camp acres, and then defensively, they just

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gotta do a better job of being able to contain
when the opponent is doing. I'm glad you mentioned cam
Akers I had. I think he's certainly like only twelve snaps.
I mean that's just amazing right now, and like, uh,
what Darryl Henderson when he had five passes for twenty
six yards. So look, I got I understand I gotta
be involved in the offense, but certainly that's the job
of Stafford. He's got to get them more involved in

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the offense. Yeah, it's not only Stafford, but it's also
Sean me Bay. Sometimes you have to have a reminder
to keep people in the mix. Like, man, you spent
a while since my guy had a test, Let me
make sure I get my test to keep him active
and engage because of not those guys that check out.
And so it's conserned effort from the quarterback to the
play called to make sure that the stars get enough

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touches to be able to impact the game. Sometimes it's
a hard juggling at two to master because you have
so many things that you're responsible for as a head
coach and office play. You know, speaking of culture, just
run this boy, I mean Sean McVeigh. I mean, now
he's like the genius coach. He won the Super Bowl.
You played for various coaches. I mean, what separates a

(22:15):
great coach from a good coach from a bad coach?
And who were the ones that you would look at
the top of the un list. I think a great
coach has to be a problem solver. The best coaches
that I've seen when you're having problems in game whether
it's a schematic thing, whether it's a personnel technique thing,
they can for you to the side of for the

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unit to the side and say, Okay, here's how we're
gonna fix this. And the things that they offer up
our our sound because they've been well thought out, but
they're well communicated. Um. And so that's one of the
things that I always remember about playing like the best
coaches have the ability to solve it for me. Look, Uh,
Marty Shotton Hammer won two hundred games in the league

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and he was one of the best. In turn, is
just being detailed, being on top of the fundamentals, making
sure that you have kind of focus on one play
at a time has often talked about a few people
are able to really stay true to that premise. Marty
was able to do it. Uh. Marv Levy did it
in a different way. You know they want. They went
to four straight Super Bowls. I got there on the

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back end of that. But he's a Hall of Fame
coach and the thing that he did is he enabled
his players. His top players kind of led the team
and governed the team, but he was able to rain
them in when he needed to, and so they learned
about the trust and just the communication that you have
to have with your top players and trusting them then
they're gonna figure it out. And so there are a

(23:42):
couple of different ways to do it, but those are
two guys that kind of stand out to me. You
mentioned Marv Levy. I I never met the gentleman, but
I'm sure he did it in a calming manner where
other coaches will, you know, chew your head off. But
there's no real way to do it. There's no textbook
way to do it. You gotta be yourself and your personality.
But I'm sure that's why Marv was, wasn't it. I mean,

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he just was a calming influence. Really Yeah. No, it's
funny man to think about the grandfatherly figure at the beginning,
the front of the room, But that was Marve Lee.
Very smart, very well read. Like people have talked about
his affinity for books and how he used poetry and
all these other tools and tactics to inspire his team.

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But that's who he was, and you know, he was
really on the front end of the way the game
is played today. You think about the k Gun and
how they operated up tempo, the way they practice when
I was in Buffalo, practices would be maybe an hour,
hour and a half um minimal contact. But because you
had Bruce Smith and Thrmer Thomas and Andre Reid and

(24:44):
Jim Kelly, your number one goal was to get them
to the game feeling help like feeling fresh, and so
that's what he would do, and so he was ahead
of his time. But I think he's a great coach,
and I think people should celebrate how great he was
at the game. He's Bucky Brooks. I made the firm
of this his FI Football Sunday and coming up next
on Fox Football Sunday from the tire Rap dot com studios,

(25:05):
that defense is dangerous. Will tell you all about it.
That's the first to nikolep with the latest. Good morning Andy,
good to hear from you guys. What about Bucky? What
about Bucky? Great to buy? Thank you? So he's carrying
the heavy loan on this show. You know he's doing
a great job. I love some NFL news here as

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it relates to quarterbacks. He has piano reports. The Ravens
offered quarterback Lamar Jackson and extension for two hundred fifty
million dollars, but Jackson turned it down because it was
not fully guaranteed, and NFL Meter reports that in case,
this last offseason wasn't any indication enough that this season
is expected to be tom Brady's last one in the NFL.

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Some injury news as it relates to games coming up
today reports a Falcon's receiver Drake London, Bucks receiver Chris Godwin,
and Saints receiver Michael tom Mus all expected to play today.
Forty Niners tight end George Kittle is unlikely to play
against the Bears. He's been dealing with a groin injury
and has not practice. In college football, it was a

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tough day to be a top ten team, three of
them going down. Number six Texas A and m upset
by Appalachian State seventeen fourteen. Number eight Notre Dame goes
down to Marshall six to one, and number nine Baylor
was on the road in provo. Number twenty one b
YU gets the victory and double overtime twenty six to twenty.
Number one Alabama almost joined that group as they got

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out of Austin with a twenty to nineteen win over Texas.
Michigan has name the starting quarterback moving forward. It'll be
Jane j McCarthy at the controls for the Wolverines. In baseball,
the Dodgers magic number to clinch the NLST is down
to four Mariners gotten by the Braves three to one.
Albert Poolhols hit home run number six nineties six of

(26:57):
his career that ties Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on
the all time list. Bucky Andy, back to you guys,
thank you so much. We're seeing in an hour right now.
They have a little margin for error that's coming right
up about thirty four minutes past and by the way,
in about seven eight minutes. For now we'll have Bucky
remembers that'll be big. So I can't wait to hear that.
But Buck, let's get right into this one. The Saints
with the Falcons today. Falcons are getting five and a

(27:19):
half and the Saints defense is fairly dangerous. It is.
But here's my deal. On the Falcons. You've got Marcus
Mariota behind center. He's a quarterback. He's supposed to mentor
the kid from the University of Cincinnati. They drift pick.
There's been ridder. This is when you could have had
Matt Ryan if he didn't scrupted Deshaun Watson thing that's
the deal. And the past rush is always a problem

(27:39):
in Atlanta. The left guard situation, that's a big to
do over there as well, So we'll see what happens there.
So that's why they're probably getting five and a half
against the Saints. Yeah, you know, it's funny because I
think Artisan did a great job with the team last year.
I think the fact that he was able to squeeze
seven wins out of the team is amazing. And he

(28:01):
did a really good job of putting Matt Ryan in
a situation where we're comfortable, and so I was surprised
to see the change that they've had at the quarterback position.
Marcus Mariota comes over, he gives him some familiarity he
played under him, but I think people have to remember
when he played under him. They removed Marcus Mariota from
the lineup to put Ryan Tanneiel in, So we'll see

(28:21):
what this looks like. Um, they don't have many explosive
playmakers on the perimeter. You have Kyle Pits, but it's
it's gonna be a hodgepodge of people contributing. Cadero Patterson
will will be a guy that can maybe make some
plays out of the backfield, but it'll be tough for
the Atlanta Falcons to score defensively. Deem Piece is tired
of this defense being the laughing stock. They've talked about it,

(28:44):
they put that out there. Well, new Let's see what
it looks like. Can he generate enough pressure? Can he
do enough things to kind of throw off the quarterback?
I don't think so. I think they play hard and
those things. I just don't have to have enough talent
to be able to get dubs. Yeah, it's funny to
talk about the New Orleans Santa defense is tremendous. I
believe it is. But the thing that's gonna hold them back,
I think it's Jamis Winston because he's just inconsistent in

(29:07):
my mind. I mean, last year he was a little
better at protecting the ball. But I tell you, I
read this about him and I really got to repeat
it because it's kind of funny. He's the basketball player
who scores thirty points, but he gives up thirty at
the other end. That's what Jamis Winston does. I mean,
I think people really look he's always been a gun slinger.
He was a gunslinger coming out of Florida State. He

(29:28):
has an unbelievable amount of confidence in his arm talent,
and so sometimes he tries to fit the ball into
tight windows where he should take the check down. Uh.
He cleaned up his game a lot. He talked about
learning up under Drew Brees and how uh Drew Brees
didn't necessarily pull out everything all the time, meaning he
said he was kind of like Batman things on the

(29:49):
utility bill, but he didn't use them all unless he
needed him. And so Jamis Winston has learned how to
be a little more patient, how to take the check down,
how to take the underneath stuff to really surrend into
the defense sometimes and understand that a sometimes they win,
and I'm just gonna check it down and I'll get
my defense a chance as long as he doesn't turn
it over. The New Orleans Saints can be a super

(30:09):
Bowl team. Offensively, they're loaded, Michael Thomas coming back, Jarvis Landry,
you have Chris Ollivet to Rickie coming over to join uh.
An offense, it all already has Alma Kamara, and then defensively, man,
they have no fear solid team. They brought over Tyron Matthew.
It's a very very good team. So I'm excited to
see what it looks like. Who do you like? I

(30:30):
like the Falcons of this game. I really do you like?
The points him to win out right straight up that
the Falcons by about three or by a field goal.
I think the Falcons take him. I really do. Okay,
so it's a robberry game. So to throw all the
records and all this stuff that I just talked about
out the door, because this is a bitter robbery, but
I'm gonna go with the Saints. I think the Saints

(30:50):
so much better team. I think they they are a
better team. But I kind of like the Falcons for
some crazy reason. Let me let me squeeze this one
in here. Forty nine is of the Bears. The Bears
a getting six and a half. I think the last
time the Bears had a good quarterback was when I
had Sid Luckman. And I don't know why they can't
get a receiver. I don't know what it is. George
Kittles out for the forty nine. Is they got a
new quarterback? Tell me about Trey Lance, because is it
that important to have a guy playing at a high

(31:12):
level on college to be successful in the NFL? I
would say no, maybe a quarterback. It's true he was
at North Dakota State, but he's got some good play
players around them, and Deebo Smith he does. I'm sorry,
you know they're talented team. And the forty niners, despite
all the conversation throughout the off season about the quarterback,
they don't run the football. The San Francisco forty nine

(31:34):
is our team that is built to run the football
and play great defense. When they do that, they win
a ton of games. Even when they had Jimmy Garoppolo,
We've seen times in the postseason where they only ran
the ball seven or eight times because they had it rolling.
And so I think with Trey Lance, the best thing
that Colch Shanahan can do is alleviate some of the
pressure on him by getting to run untracked and going.
You get the running game going in the boot leg

(31:55):
and the play actually game is easy, simple two and
three man routes, easy completions for the quarterback. If this
game becomes warm, where is maybe surprisingly tight and it
becomes a drop back passing game, that is where I
think you can see trade Lance struggle because play acting
really opens up the windows. Drop back stuff is more

(32:16):
about anticipation time and accuracy, and those are the errors
in which I believe he struggles right. And we talked
about the situation with the Bears. Their offensive line is unproven.
I think the thing that have offense going for them
is they're running back David Montgomery after a that's it's
not much. It really isn't. Yeah, it's It's one of
the things when I think about David Montgomery, Um, he

(32:38):
would provide like a nice present. But you talked about
the Bears not having a number one receiver. Uh. Darniell
Moody is a guy who's really emerging, and when you
watch the more tape, he is someone who can get down.
Justin Fields is real and this would be a personal
game for him because remember the centcis forty Niners elected
to take trade lance. A kid who played one game
his final season at Off Dakota State over Justin Fields,

(33:02):
who played at a bigger program at Ohio State, played
on big stages, and sometimes on those stages you looked
like the best guyt in the field. I don't know
if he has enough fireprower to make this one tough,
but I think he's going to be geeked up to
kind of show the football world why he should have
been drafted higher than he was drafted, right, But I
still think the forty Niners have too much personnel to
beat the Bears. I mean they that they will beat

(33:24):
the Bears. I think they'll beat him handling too. But
you're like, you're like handling handily handling hand double digits,
perhaps by double digits. This big mark, Um, it's a
big mark. You got a young quarterback making the first
making a start. I think Matt eber flews and the

(33:44):
one thing that you can do for a young quarterback,
they're gonna stop to run, making trade lands through into
zone coverage as opposed to man coverage where it's not clear.
I think Bears keep this one a little closer, a
little tighter. I think San Francisco forty Niners win, but
I think the Bears keep it all closer than many
people think. Yeah, and how difficult is it for these
teams because there's not much tape to look at when

(34:07):
you're going into a game. Now. If they played later
in the season and play for the second time, you
know you can see tendencies that's going on. But right
now it's like open season. You don't know what you're
gonna get right, I mean, what a coach is doing.
There's not much tape to see. Now, there's not much
tape to see. So what do you normally do if
you've met ever fluce, You try and go back and
digging the archive and see previous games that you matched

(34:31):
up with the coach. How did the coach attack you?
From a philosophical standpoint, how did he handle your coverage?
Your attack is the way that you like to play
the game. Then what you try and do is piece
together some of the things that you're able to see
in the preseason. They don't give you a lot, but
they give you the vanilla versions of some of the
concepts that you'll see. So if you see concepts show

(34:53):
up three or four times more than likely it is
going to be a thing that's gonna be integral in
their game plans early in the year big part of it.
So what you try and do is anticipate some of
the things that are going to happen, but you build
your plan off of knowin here the base things that
are gonna happen. And what we're gonna do is real
start the game and as the game is going, we
will make adjustments in the second, third, and fourth quarters.

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Sounds great. He's Bucky Brooks. I Andy Firmin. This is
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(35:56):
This is what we're doing the on the locker room
to the gridiron. This man has seen at all your
favorite NFL veteran, Bucking Brooks prown gives us the good,
the bad, and the ugly from his plane days in
the NFL. And now Bucky remembers. All right, you can't

(36:17):
hold back now you gotta mention names Okay, we're gonna
get this done. No big deal. Okay, remember highlights of
your career. We're talking a little bit about training camp
when it really was a training kid. Now, how many
weeks was training Kim? When you were doing your plane
training camp back in day? Was about six weeks? Six
weeks four preseason games, kind of long, kind of long.

(36:41):
And I had pads on two right, tackling on pads
and two of days, oh, two days, four contact pads.
You can't go more than back to back days with
the pads on. But yeah, it certainly wasn't what we
have uh this year amazing. You know, I would think Buck,
You know, you're looking at the injury factors that pile

(37:02):
up over the less several years. The lack of preparation
could create injuries. Don't you believe that? I mean, I
think so. I mean, if you're tackling and practicing twice
a day and you're really getting yourself in shape, you're
not coming out rusty and getting those injuries. And it's happening. Now.
It's funny that you bring me to that, because now
I can tell you, like a little story. So the

(37:23):
story comes when I talked to you about the Buffalo
Bills and the way that we practice in Buffalo and Buffalo,
you didn't have pads on often, it was just shoulder
as in those things. But that was also a big
part of how Bill Walsh used to train his teams
with the San Francisco forty Niners. So I go to
training camp with the Green Bay Packers. Mike Holmgren, who
used to be Bill Washes offers ave coordinator, subscribed to

(37:46):
a similar theory. And it's great because you do feel great,
You're fresh, you're ready to go, You're kind of moving around.
It's more mental than physical. Didn't want you to operate
at a high tempo, but we're gonna take care of you.
The only time that becomes a problem is when you
play a very physical team. So back in the day,
that physical team would be like a team like the
Pittsburgh Steelers. You haven't been hit all week, and then

(38:10):
you put on the pads and you get ready to
play a game on Sunday. You have to understand that
the game is much faster than you can ever simulate,
and practice is much more physical and violent than you
ever can simulate in practice. So if you go through
a series of weeks where you haven't really banged or
had a lot of contact. The very first time you hit,
it's almost like getting in a car wreck. And so

(38:34):
the bad part of it is you're not prepared for
that kind of contact. The the good part is you're
you're fresh and you're ready to go. And so to me,
that approach, the approach that we're seeing now in the NFL,
that is approached for an older team, a team that
already knows how to tackle, a team that knows how
to give their minds up and their bodies up for contact.

(38:55):
I think with a younger team, a younger team has
to take an old school approach, more contact, more physicality,
a little more rough and rugged, uh environment to get
them ready for how pro football is played. Amazing, it's
it's funny, and I think that the younger coaches are
doing that too. As as the new era of coach

(39:15):
that de Sean mcvay's of the world, there's that Taylors
of the world. You know, they kind of kind of
push it back a little bit more of a RESTful
approach where the old guard, the old coaches, you know,
they'll hit them harder and they'll do what you'd like
to do. Get them ready with the tackling. Is that correct?
You see it changeing with the coaches. You know this,
that's it because when I played for Marty Schottenhammer, we

(39:37):
hit all the time, you know, and there is something
to you kind of build up your body armor. The
trick is you want to be physical the camp, but
you want to take care of your players. So how
can you get that accomplished. You have to teach everyone
how to practice. Meaning, hey, we're gonna thud, but I
don't want guys on the ground. I need you to
stay up. Let's limit the bodies that are rolling around

(39:57):
on the ground because someone can get an ankle and
need hold up and we lose them. So let's just
make sure we learn how to pracdice. Let's teach them
how to predice. Practice fast, be physical, but take care
of your teammates. Okay, quickly, the worst teammate you ever
had in your career and all five teams you played
for teammates, All my teammates have been great. All the

(40:18):
meeting is great. I don't have any issues with the teammates.
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(41:03):
up buying should be. Five times. He's played for five
different teams in the NFL Super Bowl champ my partner,
my friend. I gotta tell you something, Bucky Brooks. I'll
tell you right here in front of America. You know,
when I first started here, Fox Sports Radio one of
my favorites, and he was ray way up on my list.
He still is. I love with the death Lincoln Kennedy.

(41:24):
But you're pushing link. You're pushing link off the off
the mountain. Really, because I used to I used to
jab him a little bit, but he was great because
I used to push him for knowledge about the game
because I I want to know about the inside of
the game. I want to pull back the onion, so
to speak. And now I'm doing that with you. So
Lincoln's sorry. Link. I mean, I love you, but I

(41:45):
think Bucky's taking your place. I gotta say that. That's it.
I appreciate it. Link was one of my teammates made
it that with the Raiders, and so I appreciate that.
I know he cares a lot of weight in your
space and so h he has a lot of weight.
That's what you're trying to say. No, no, no, no, no.
He slimmed down a little bit. I saw, think that's longer.

(42:07):
He looked. He looks good. Links look good. He's a
good man. He really is a good man. He's got
his own cigar brand too. I love him to death.
And uh, it was it two years ago. They played
in Cincinnati and he does the games for for the Raiders.
So we met and then we went out a little bit.
It was good. So it's very nice to him to
do that. So I love Lincoln Kennedy. But now you're
very close you're close, Buck, You're very close. But before

(42:29):
we continue in this NFL rundown, I got a couple
of questions. I want to pick you up bright a
little bit, And uh, what about Jalen Hurd's big deal,
big year for him and the Philadelphia goes. You know
what the big question in Philadelphia is right now, and
it's crazy. Those fans are crazy. The question they're asking
in Philadelphia, what's the weather gonna be like for the
Super Bowl parade? That's what they're asking of Philadelphia. Isn't

(42:51):
too soon for that, Buck, I mean, they have some
of the pretty good squad and looking at their competitors
in Ease, it does look like business years for the taking.
The Cowboys are not what the Cowboys were a year ago.
Injuries that kind of. They've also lost a few creates,
traded away Amari Cooper, so it's a different team that. Uh,

(43:14):
they'll face the Johnson not quite I would say, ready
to bubble, and then the Washington commanders. Who know which
teams wanted to show up? You got Carson quarterback, which
one plays wanted me to all played very very well
in Philadelphia or the one who did play so well
that the end of his teamior there in one year,
stopped at the end in Indianapolis, So it's there for
the Eagles to be there. A lot of it hinges

(43:34):
on the performance of jan the Hurst, though, you know
you at on the other side. The defense. I mean
that the hype that I've been reading about defense on
the Eagles, it's not a control to about Fletcher Cox,
Ban and Graham James Bradberry. Is that Is that realistic
or they're just going crazy in Philadelphia with that. Now
I think it's realistic. Um, they they they settled in,

(43:58):
they become more of a read react defense. They want
to play some zone, they want to keep the ball
in front, and they want to rally and tackling. So
now they have the pieces in place where they can
do some of that. Some of it were required just
a four man rush, max coverage in the back end.
They have athletes at the second level. The Kobe Dean
uh that he picked up in the mid rounds from
Georgia has been everything that they thought he could be.

(44:20):
And it's a nice steal from them because he's on
the draft of this kid from Georgia to go with
his teammate Jordan Davis, who also came from Georgia. They're different.
They're pretty stopped and sturdy, A little big a chance
to play a really good Devons because they can always
and have always been able to hunt on the edges.
All right, a couple of cookies. Right now, there's Baker
Mayfield in his new team in Carolina. Does he pushed
those Carolina Panthers in the playoffs? And we'll too get

(44:42):
the Dolphins into the playoffs. The Baker beef one is
interesting because I don't think you do the job so cool,
But he wants the job. He's obviously wanted to trust
to his teammates and coaches. Uh, he has good weapons
around him. I would contend that he had to better
team around him in Cleveland. The one thing that he

(45:03):
gives them though, he gives them a little edge and
little swag at the quarterback position that needn't lacking. Uh.
The thing that Baker has to do is he has
to understand the limitations of his game and not try
to play outside of himself. Don't try and do everything
by yourself. Kind of use your teammates, Let Christian McCaffrey
and know those guys. Kind of do the heavy lifted.
If he does that, he certainly can manage them well

(45:23):
enough to get them to the postseason. Well, what about
the Dolphins, so we're too we're talking about lower I
think the big thing is how does Mike Nanuel handle
the weapons that he has around two of the way
to it plays. To me, the best way would be
an older Drew Brees where Drew Brees which kind of
pick a part to underneath parts of the defense and

(45:45):
occasionally take his shots. The issue that you have a
little bit with the Dolphins is Tyreek Hill wants to
stretch the field. He's a vertical playmaker. You run those
deep overs and crossing routes and uh, we see the
big plays that they've generated in preseason. Even though it
doesn't count, it does matter because now we've had an
opportunity to kind of imagine how Tyreek Hill can be
used in this offense. I think two will show up.

(46:06):
You know, he's been I feel like he's been unfairly criticized.
I think he will show up. He'd be a solid quarterback.
I'm not proclaiming him to be a top five quarterback,
but I think he'd be solid enough to win. And
I think if he wins this year, he continued to
hold on to that job. And I like what I'm
hearing from Tyreek Hill because basically he's just praising him.
I understand that just playing in shots and T shirts
and practice, but still in only there's a lot of

(46:28):
nice things to say. We'll see what he says at
the end of the season, what happens then, But right
now he's saying one of the right things to make
that relationship positive with him and TA Yeah, absolutely, he's
saying all the right stuff and I like that. I
like that version. Now. I believe he's going a little
over the top with some of the comparisons to Pat
Mahomes and those things, but I understand wanted to come

(46:48):
out and strongly endorse your new quarterback. Um, you should
do that. The team is trying to do that, The
head coach is trying to do that, and so as
to us settles in as to a place, maybe to
its potential, maybe he does rewrite the narratives about his game.
The guy was viewed as the number one quarterback for
a long time in their draft class. And even though
we're done with that and how you play as ultimately

(47:10):
how you judge, he was a good player, and so
let's see what he looks like. Nantai's healthy, Nanda, He's
playing for a coach that appears to support him, have
his back. I think we'll see a different version of
Twohim when and when he plays this year handsome talent around. Okay,
we talked about Super Bowl hangovers before with the Rams,
let's talk about the Super Bowl possible hangover. Though they
didn't win the Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals, they

(47:31):
came out of nowhere last year. They host the dreaded
Pittsburgh Steelers. Today in Cincinnati, Steelers are getting six and
a half. That's strange when these two teams meet. And
last year with big Ben Roethlisberg and an aging big band,
the Steelers lost to the Bengals. Get this buck by
a combined score of sixty five to twenty. Mitch Drabinsky
has taken his place. They see the answer quarterback for

(47:53):
the long hole. And I don't think he is, but
certainly a lot more mobile than Ben was at least
last year. See what happens right now today, what you
take on the Bengals coming back and make anna repeat
performance for the Super Bowl. Well, we'll find out and
They'll find out real quickly how different it is now
that they are the defending a f C champion. Uh
the Pittsburgh Steelers to be jacked up to play the Bengals.

(48:16):
Maybe they didn't have that same kind of energy about
the Bengals before because the Bengals were the laughing stock.
I think this is gonna be a very intense and
competitive game for the Steelers. It comes down to which
miss Robinsky shows up in terms of is it going
to be the one that plays on instincts, uses athletics
in and Philly embraces the tour that he has, or
is it gonna be the one that we saw in Chicago.

(48:37):
Try to show the football world that I'm a traditional
drop back pass I can do all the things that
the high end guys can do. If Mitchell Riti plays
to his game, and if Matt Canada, the offensive coordinator
for the Pittsburgh Steelers, implements those college things that they've
shown throughout the preseason, yeah, Dr Biscuit, but will be fine.
And then they have enough weaponry to make this a

(48:58):
very very competitive game. I was it like the Bengals,
but I think this is a tough game. I think
the thing that's could have hurt Chobisky whether anything else,
is the offensive line in front of him, because it's
not that strong. And I think that's one of the
reasons why he's getting the start over Kenny Pickett the
draft pick, because I don't think they want to throw
Kenny Pickott to the Wolves yet a little bit. I

(49:19):
think Mitchell played well enough to retain the job. I
won't say that he had to win it. He was
the betting favorite going into it, so Kenny Pickt would
have to like clearly outplay him because it was closed.
They went with the veterman because they feel like in
the early part of the season, their early schedule, they
need a veteran presence to handle that. Um we'll see.

(49:41):
We'll see how short lived the mic is, but it's
certainly is one of those things where you believe that
the Steelers can't compete because it's one of those divisional
robberies where you just don't know. You just have to
kind of put the records to the side and just
let watch the play out. Okay, tell me Bucky Bucky
Brook's opinion of Joe the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals,

(50:01):
Who really is the franchise right now with Cincinnati, He's
turned that team around. Joe Burr is so cool. Uh
Is personality has allowed him to really grow into the
leader of that team. We can talk about the talents
and the skills. Uh. He's a pass first point guard

(50:21):
that prefers to play in empty formations because it's like
his old high school days in high school where he
was a big time, highly decorated basketball player, gets it
out on the perimeter less his players work. The Bengals
have surrounded him with outstanding wide receivers to Marches t Higgins,
Tyler Board and then Joe Mixing, who can catch the
ball out the backfield. Is a rough and rugged runner.

(50:44):
This is a hard match up for everybody. Not many
people can have that, But because Joe Burrow is so cool,
he gives them a chance. Because his winning pedigree having
won a l s U that swag is a little
different than some of the other quarterbacks in the league.
You know, it's funny use the term cool. I'm gonna
use the term resilient with Joe Burrow. Why do I
say that, Here's a guy who was like third on

(51:06):
the depth shot at Ohio State, couldn't get it done.
He wanted to play at Ohio State because the kids
from a to Ohio it's the state school. He wanted
to be the big man on campus. Couldn't get it done.
He found the school in Louisiana l s U. What
does he do. He leads that team to a national championship,
comes to Cincinnati with the Cincinnati Bengals. I look at
that playoff game that had against Tennessee last year. He

(51:26):
threw three I n T s in that game and
they won. Sacked nine times. I mean, how many quarterbacks
could throw three deceptions in the game and win the game.
He was sacked forty seven times last year. This guy
gets his uniform dirty, resilient. He's back there. He's tough,
and I think players around them realize that and they
play hard for him. Yeah. I think they do realize that.

(51:49):
They do play hard for him, and that's one of
the things that you want. You want your best player
to inspire and encourage the teammates around him. And because
they see him activated, he does to performed what he
does in the clutch. That's why they play r It's
funny because I look at that Bengal team right now,
they may have the three best wide receivers in football
with Jamaar Chase, Trey Higgins and Tyler Boyd. I don't

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know other teams that may have somebody who could match
those three. That's some great receivers in the NFL, for sure,
But I think that the three in Cincinnati might be
the best in the league. Cincinnati is clearly in the
conversation to be the best in the league. I would
say Cincinnati and the l A Charges because they have
all the things, all the tools that you look forward

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to complete year passing game. Uh, those three our receivers,
so they give you problems. Tyler Boyd is a monster
over the middle, te Higgins is a stretch guy, and
then Jamaar Chase is just special. So when you have
those kind of those three guys working together to come
up with the collective some yeah, it's big time. It's
big time over there. I'm taking the Bengals today. I

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think it's gonna be closer than people think, like something
like seven something in that neighborhood. Perhaps it's a good man,
it's a good score. I think I think it's a
tough game. Is a good score. And now you're saying
that fully disrespecting to Pittsburgh. Still his defense, if you
didn't give up that many points, But I dig it.
Thank you, thank you for coming from you. Means a lot,

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because I did hear the open again at the top
of the hour, tremendous All Star super Bowl chant. And
by the way, he's with Andy Ferman. I mean, it's
kind of like you're in the studio and they found
some guy with a broom down the hall and that
was me. Yeah, you could join Bucky if you want to.
But I get it, you know, I mean, there's gotta
be something that could say about me that I read

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a book lately, I do something, you know what I mean.
But that's the way they do it here. You know,
you're the star, and I'm I'm just happy to be
a board because I'm learning so much from you and
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that's one thing I could beat him, and we'll see
about that. But right now, back to the ball games.
Back to ball Eagles at the Lions. Today, Lions are
getting four and a half. Last year Buck the Lions ran,
the Eagles ran all over the Lions. Miles Sanders, Kenneth Gainwell,
tough old line. And now the Eagles have added some

(54:59):
some pop in the receiving aspect of it because I
got Davante Smith A J. Brown, so you know, it
kind of got dual threats now on the offensive side
of the ball, those Eagles. But I'm moving for the Lions.
You know. I just feel bad for that team that
that hasn't done anything. And I watched them on hard
Knocks and I kind of got an affinity towards Dan Campbell,
the coach. I like his grit attitude, you know, and

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when I think about what you have available, I think
the coach is outstanding, gritty, tough, wants these teams to
play in a physical fashion. I love how they're going
and I love how they're trending. I think the main
thing is you want to see early in the year,
can they keep it on the right track. If it
doesn't look good early, can they still stay with it.
It's they just discipline and the resilience to say, hey,

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now this is the best way for us to play.
I do love the coach, Like you talked about it.
The coach has everything that you look for. Tough, minded,
hard nos This team gold fit in the mold of
the coach. Yeah, so I like it. I like ask
one well. They went with defense, obviously, the kid from
Michigan and able to pick Aiden Hutchinson. You know that's
gonna be the guy that's going to lead the defense,
and I think people are following him. I watched him

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again on Hard Knocks, and I think that he is
a leader, a natural born leader, kind of like a
Joe Burrow kind of guy. Comes to work every day
with that lunch bucket and he plays hard and everybody
follows it. But now they've got some auditions on offense
with the wide receiver DJ Clark. I think that basically
that could make some noise. The key is Jared goff
under sent that could he get the job done? No?

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I think Jerry Goffer is underappreciated. The two time Pro
Bowl again who led a team to a Super Bowl
in l A. And I know that everyone likes to
give Sean maybe a lot of credit. Basically, he was
the joystick to Jean McVeigh being the game, Uh, making
it happen with an offense that was super explosive back then. Uh.
The thing about Jerry Goffers, he has been through a lot.
He has been doubted, he has been critiqued. But I

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think he's the right guy for Detroit right now. He's
sampled enough success that he can convey that message to
his teammates and as he's surrounded by what I call
more alpha of leaders. UM. I think it allowed him
to do what he does best, which is managed jofense,
direct offense, getting into the hands of the playmakers. UM,
let me say this about eight hunches and though, because
I think all those things that you said about him

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are true. He's tough, he's hard, knows he's gritty. But
this is an A plus athlete and I don't know
if people have played up how athletic he is and
how he can give you problems. I expect this guy
over time to twist and tie guys into knots off
the edge because he does have first step quickness, he
has outstanding bursts, he has a finish and a NonStop motor.

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It's hard to deal with defenders on the edges who
have those trades. You know. I'm glad you mentioned Hutchinson,
Biggins I mentioned coming into the segment of the game.
Within the game, you got Hutchinson's going against the right
tackle of Eagles Lane Johnson. That's a tough haul opening
day for a rookie and the game in Detroit, everybody
looking all eyes on Hutchinson today. That's gonna be a
tough call. For him, that's gonna be a tough call,

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and I mean it's gonna be some of that and
he may get bad time. You also make it Lane
Johnson because he has great quickness and he reminds me
a lot of the way the Boases were able to
use their technical skills and savvy to win a lot
of one on one matchups early and not. Just In
has some of that. So we'll see what it looks like.

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Lane Johnson is definitely a tough one, But how do
you think and get him too? Yeah, it's funny. I
think you and I are in the same wavelength. We
talked about the grit with Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions.
You know, you learned so much. Obviously, people you know,
get the inside look when you're on Hard Knocks and
you know they learned and you form opinions. I think
the public right now maybe rooting for the Detroit Lions

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you after what they saw on Hard Knocks. Were you
ever in Hard Knocks as a player? No, unfortunately, like
my teams were never there. I think it's a great
franchise though. I think it's um. It gives you the
behind the scenes look at what it's really like how
training camp is like how the players are feeling about
their lot in life. The conversation is that you know,

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coaches have every night about the players, and you see
how quickly uh opinions can change, going from offseason workouts
to a let's play real football. It changes. But I
love the franchise. Man, it takes me back every time
I watch it. Yeah, and I would say this, I
think that the players and maybe I'm way off based
on this, but I would think the players basically are

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would be embarrassed to kind of screw up on TV
during a hard Knocks thing. I think they probably come
out and play a little harder than they normally would do.
Although I will tell you this much, the language is
never held back. I mean, Dan Campbell, it's unbelievable. I mean,
every other words, the F bomb. But that's okay, that's okay.
That's basically the way it is, right. Uh yeah for

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some coaches. Some coaches have spicy language and they operate
like that. It depends. I think what you've done in
terms of Hard Knocks is you've given that access, and
so sometimes when you give the access, you have to
be comfortable knowing that some of this stuff will kind
of come into play. But I love it. I love
watching it. I love the feelings that I get when

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I watched the success stories. I also can relate to
those that are if it's gonna find their ways out
of the building that make it cut and release. It's great,
though it takes you through everything. You know, it's funny.
And you talk about Dan Campbell and if you get
him in person, I mean, I'd love to meet him
one day, but he is into it. But more than that,

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he's a the languages is salty like that, I'll grant
you that, But the more more than that, he's a
positive coach. And I've talked to several coaches about the
art of coaching. Do not coach negatively. Negatively, you have
to coach positively. What do I mean by that? If
you're a defensive coach, and I'm telling you this and
I'm sure you'll agree, if you're a secondary coach, the

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easiest thing to do is to tell a defensive back
don't let the eye beat you, don't let it up
behind you. You know that's negative, that's negative coaching. I
think what you gotta do them is say, look, watched
his move, watch the cuts, watch his eyes things like that,
rather than say, oh, really easy to say don't let
don't don't get beat, don't let the guy get behind you.
And I think Dan Campbell coaches in a positive sort

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of way. Yeah, that positivity is great, and that positivity
has enabled UM them too kind of grow up. And
even though it's not reflecting in their record, this team
is much better. This seems very competitive. The positivity is
something that you want. I think about Pete Carroll on
the way that he's operated Therehawks. Man. Sometimes you got

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to speak their good into your tea. You have to
tell the good things are about to happen, but we're
about to get a turnuble uh And eventually they believe
what you because you consented, UH can put it on them. Yeah.
I think Dane the U stands the value of being
positive in these situations and players know that too. I mean,

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I don't think anybody wants to go to practice every
single day and get the head beat in. You know,
you want to go out there to a learning situation,
you know, And people said when we got to the Pros,
you should learn. No, I mean every situation, even on
every team, And you've been on five different teams. I'm
sure there were learning situations that you learned from teammate
to team B when you went from your five different
teams raised differently of London. Sometimes for your coaches, sometimes

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you learn from the teammates. UM Kansas City by the
name of James Hasty all through cornerback where sound dead
it was a pro bowler with the Kenaida GC took
an interest in making sure I developed to play at
a certain level. And so yeah, I think reiment culture,

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it it's built. The cable is trying to create in
the culture allowed team winning football. Alright, he's Bucky Brooks,
I'm Andy for I mean, it's just Fox Football Sunday
on Fox Boats Radio. What happened to the offense? That's next,
But first to Nick Cope with the latest. Alright, guys,

(01:03:10):
we're getting closer. We're inside of five and a half
hours to kick off here on this first NFL Sunday.
Cannot wait. We do have some quarterback news coming this
morning and updates to that report about Lamar Jackson last hour, guys,
ESPN saying that the deal was for six years that
was offered to him worth up to two hundred ninety

(01:03:33):
million dollars with all the incentives thrown in, but only
a hundred thirty three of that two million was guaranteed,
So that's why Jackson turned it down. By comparison, in
the summer, he had Russell Wilson get a hundred twenty
four million guaranteed, Kyle Kyler Murray a hundred three millions.
So that's what Lamar Jackson was working with. And as

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we know, the teams will get back to negotiating once
this season is over. NFL Meter Sports that this season
is expected to be Tom Brady's last in the NFL.
He and the Bucks getting ready to face the Cowboys
on Sunday Night Football. Some injury news reports a forty
Niners tight end George Kittle is unlikely to play today

(01:04:14):
against the Bears. He's been dealing with a groin injury
has not practiced this week. In terms of players who
are expected to play, according to reports, Cardinals tight end
Zach Ertz, Commanders Titan Logan Thomas, Falcons receiver Drake London,
Patriots receiver Jacobe Myers, Bucks receiver Chris Godwin, and Saints
receiver Michael Thomas all expected to be a go today

(01:04:37):
for their respective teams in college football on Saturday, it
was not a good day to be a top ten team.
Number six Texas A and M, number eight Notre Dame,
and number nine Baylor all going down. Number one Alabama
nearly joined them. They get out of Austin with a
late comeback victory twenty to nineteen over Texas. Longhorns quarterback
Quinn Ears left the game in the first quarter with

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what was called a strain clavical Michigan has named a
starting quarterback going forward. After a duel between Cade McNamara
and j. J. McCarthy, Coach Jim Harball has named McCarthy
the starting quarterback can Major League Baseball. The Dodgers magic
number to clinch the n O West is down to
four after they beat the Padres eight to four. Albert
Poohole has hit home run number six nineties six, the

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tie Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the all time list.
Cardinals beat the Pirates seven to five, and at the
US Open, we've got the men's title match coming up today.
Carlos Alcarez the number three seed against the number five seed,
Casper Rude Andy. Fuck you back to you guys, Thank
you so much. They lost to it three times. I'll
tell you all about it in just about a minute.

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And we have crossed the fifty online and what we
call Fox Football Sunday on Fox Bus. Ready, he is
Bucky Brooks, the Super Bowl champ. I'm Andy Ferman, just
trying to hang on. I learned a little bit from
the Bucker. Okay, we have Botta barrel betting and about
seven eight minutes from now. But right now this is
a easy because I'm not gonna say I'm a big
fan of eighteen. I love watching the games. I do

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root for my Cincinnati Bengals ghost that's the area I
live in. But the Patriots, I love Bill Belichick. I
just think Bill Belichick is is an old school and
you're not gonna see another guy like him, probably down
the road. Ever, so, the Patriots are playing at the
Dolphins today and the Patriots getting three and a half,
which to me is it's unbelievable. However, Patriots offense nowhere

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to be found in the preseason. They've lost their last
three against two and the Dolphins and Miami. Right now,
let's take a quick peek here. But before I picked
your brain, they fired their head coach Brian Flores. They
replaced with Mike McDaniel. They traded for wide receiver Tyreek
Hill from the Chiefs. He gave him a huge extension there.
They got Tehronto Armstead, UH left tackle, got Connor Williams

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and guard. They improved that offensive line. They got running
back Chase Edmonds, they got Sonny Michelle, they got a
strong rushing and they got everything go for them. They
really do. There's a two way to keep it together
and I think this team could really make the play
playoffs will be tremendous for the Dolphins. I think they
could do it. But you know, I hate to see
my pats go down. I think they will go down again.
And obviously I think the heat is going to be

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a factor to in Florida. The heat is always a factor.
If you're the Miami Dolphins. You always want home games early,
uh in the season because it gives you a significant
home field advantage. The Miami Dolphins came down on Tuesday
to get ready to deal with the heat because it's
been a house of horse for them playing the last
three or four years. UH. That's it. It still comes

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down to execution and which team can get off to
the fast start, we talked about all the moving forests
that you have that are the Miami Dolphins on offense.
Even though we've seen it look good at times during
the preseason, I could it could struggle get a little
bumpy early on. Um. The thing about this, and there's
been a lot of conversation about the uncertainty at quarterback

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for the New Orleans I mean, not New Orleans, for
the New England Patriots, Mad Joe, Matt mcc patricia, Joe jet,
whoever's called the plays. It doesn't really matter. Bill Belichick
oversees that entire operation. He would have significant input and
how these games are played out. I just can't count
the Patriots out. I think they're better. I think they're
better than people talking. Really, I mean, I hope you're

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correct us. I root for Phil Belichick, I really do.
But here here's something I read the other day which
kind of makes a lot of sense. Because everybody is
talking about Mac Jones. Has he's gone downhill after that
first year? And I would say this, and this is
what I read, Not Jones ceiling lowers because of an
absence of weaponry, And that's true. I mean, who does
he have to throw the football? Too. Yeah, I mean

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that that is true. Like he doesn't have enough to
like on the on the surface to say who commands
a double team. That's the way you normally look at
it from a defense standpoint, who their wide receiver corps
deserves the double team? Oh, we don't have any. That
means we can put extra defenders in a lot of
scrimmage and dare them to throw the ball. And that's
what we're seeing. And so we'll see if early if

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the Pagries go back to maybe that old blueprint where
they go one wide receiver, two tight ends, two backs
and kind of smash it. A's you a little bit
get back to the screen game. Uh, they have a
variety of different ways that they could elect to play it. Uh,
let's see which one day pick I would say this
on paper, Obviously the Dolphins are more talented, they have

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more weapons in the pages right now, they should be
able to win this ball game. I understand that. But
what they gotta do is don't turn the ball over.
And they are capable of doing that. I mean that's look,
that's the number one thing in every game to turn
The turnover ratio is big. If you wanted by plus one.
I think about about six games, you win it by
plus two. I mean, this happened, two more takeaways than

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your opponent. Your eyes go up to almost like early
and then the three. It's stupid, it's almost so. If
you simply take care of the football, you give your
team a chance to win, we will see how they
they how they perform. Because if you can coach that,
get your players to understand that just don't give the

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ball away, we we win a lot of games. I'm sorry,
let me interrupt, but you did say that the Patriots
going to supply some people not as bad as people
are making them out to be. Who do you like
in this game? What do you think? I hope the
Patriots w win. I think the Dolphins will win, though, yeah,
I think the Dolphins in a minute, because they just
have their number at home, combined with the circumstances and conditions,

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I think he just plays in their favor, you know.
And let's talk about the Belichick situation right now. I mean,
the talk is that he couldn't win uh without Tom Brady,
and you know what, I just don't think that's fair
because you talk about coaches in the National Football League,
maybe a coach in any sport, you're you're as good
as your personnel. And I go back to basketball in

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the NBA and they talk about Greg Pavovich now had
the whole of Fame inductions yesterday, and obviously that a
couple of San Antonio Spurs going in, buto and down
the road, Gret Pavovich will go in. But look what
he's done. After Tim Duncan and those guys left, they
haven't done anything in San Antonio. He's still a great coach.
But you have to have the personnel get ahead of horses.

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You get ahead of horse, You get ahead of personnel
to be able to do what you want to do.
Uh if not what you're doing. You're having the out
scheme every day and everything is so hard that it's hard,
so you consistently feel the winning team. But when you
have talent and superior to allent, and what you want
to do is simplified and make the game easy for them,
so they can play fast, they can play free, they
can play physical, so um, we'll see. I don't think

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coaching changes. Is the pieces that you have at your
disposable that changes. It's funny, it really is funny. Big
Lass and fans get involved with that too. Fans don't.
You're thinking against the coach is not the coach. And look,
I would say this on the college level, I think
I might be the coach in Nebraska with Scott Frost.
I think there's a problem there. I really do. I
I don't think he realized how big that program was

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when he went and left that small school in Florida.
They go to Nebraska. Nebraska is big, the best is
big time football. The fans expected. It's like the pro
team in the state. There's nothing else going on in
the state of Nebraska. I'm sorry to say, but that's
just the way it is. And they packed Lincoln UH Lincoln,
Nebraska every Saturday, and Memorial Stadium was sixty people. He

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can't get it done and they lost yesterday. You can't
lose in Nebraska, and I think that's on him and
I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't make it through
the season. Yes, it's gonna be hard, I think just
because of the the losing in the attitude. They lost
a ton of close games, and so a lot of
people appointed that being UH inferior coaching, because great coaches

(01:12:36):
have find a way to win some of those games. Uh.
My biggest thing with Nebraska, and I said, it's going
all the way back when Nebraska decided that they wanted
to be something that they're not, when they decided that
they wanted to go with Bill Kellahan and throw the
ball all over the yard. They've never been able to
find their way back to what made them Nebraska big

(01:12:57):
physical offensive line, home run speed at the running back position,
a unique system that challenge the discipline in the detail
of the discipline of the defense. When they operated the
triple option and you couldn't deal with them, they decided
to become more like the rest of the pack as
opposed to being different um and I think it's worth then,

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and they won't get back to be in Nebraska until
they make a conservative effort that we're going to be
people up and run the ball at him and run
the option and recruit these athletes. Even though Scott Frost
had all that in his bag and he did it
at UCF, for whatever reason, he hasn't been able to
do it in Nebraska. Nebraska has to get back to
playing Nebraska football. On the topic of coaches, and let

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me run this by you and if you want to
mention names. I'd love to hear him. Have have you
been on any team and after a loss or maybe
after a big loss, guys got together and sort of
like point the finger, not verbally, but to yourselves that
you lost the game because on the coach and maybe
it felt the coach didn't do an of homework or
the coach didn't do much preparation prior to the game

(01:14:03):
during the week. Has that happened to you on any
bulk club you played for? Oh? Yeah, I mean you
always criticize, You always wondered about game players. You're always
are looking back made that called then, And the longer
that you've been in the league, the more that you
understand the time and in the rhythm of office and stuff.
But there's certainly been instances where I didn't love how

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the playing the game was scripted out by the coaches staff.
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(01:15:13):
TV taken away. Brooks is gonna feel the wrath of me.
He's gonna lose. Nope, he's gonna lose today. Just what
you would form one. Thank you the second week in
row you you mean, Brian know, how does it feel?
I gotta know, I'm feeling great. I know that Bucky's nervous.
Now he's fitzing a little bit. You know what's okay,

(01:15:34):
I'm gonna be honest. I got money. I'm Bucky this
week because he has an inside look of the NFL
because he was there. Do you know, Oh wait a minute,
just back off a little bit. You know everybody kissing
his ring? You know what I mean? That go off?
Just a bate. All right, Well, guys, we're starting with
the Raiders. They're heading to Los Angeles to take on
the Chargers this afternoon. Will the Chargers have over or

(01:15:55):
under ninety five penalty yards against the Raiders. I'm gonna
a I'm gonna say under. I'm gonna say I'm gonna
go first because I won last week. So i'm gonna
say under, let's go let's go Buck. You see what
he has to say? Yeah, we go under. Normally their
world coach team. I think they take care of it.
I'm gonna go with the under. Bet number two. The

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Browns are set to play the Panthers at one pm
Eastern time. Does the combined score go for under or
over or under fifty points? Buck? Uh, Let's go over,
Let's go over, let's go over. He becomes a shootout.

(01:16:35):
I'm gonna say under. I'm going on during that when
I see a score, will be like er. Those are
rookie numbers and the Panthers win, alright. Bet number three.
The Ravens are heading to New Jersey to face the
questionable Jets. Will Lamar Jackson have over under sixty three
rushing yards? Oh? Over, are you kidding? Against the Jets,

(01:16:59):
will have that in the first half. The contract looms
in the balance. I'm gonna say, under, maybe it doesn't
run like you r. I love that take. I love it.
Oh okay, uh, all right, We're going to the bet
number four. When Nebraska losing to Georgia Southern yesterday, will
Scott Frost have a job with the Huskers at the

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end of the week. Who's up, Bucky Buck, He's up.
I think he keeps He keeps the job at least
for another week. But it is coming. The cut is
coming to firing is coming. That seat is hot right now.
I mean you can see smoke coming out of his seat.
So Buck, by the way, tab our guy here are

(01:17:42):
executive produced. He's a big Nebraska fans. I'm gonna say
he's gone. I'm gonna say he's gonna be fired tomorrow.
I think the alumni is gonna put so much pressure
on the athletic department that he's he'll be gone tomorrow.
And I'm with you, I really am. I think he's
out the door. If they lose Oklahoma next week, he's gone. Finished.
I don't think he's gonna face Oklahoma. I think I

(01:18:02):
think they'll be gone wild Cards, wild card in photo
throw in here that was left out. His buyout reduces
to half in October one. It goes down from like
a fifteen million dollar buy to seven point five million.
Why couldn't you locked in? Locked in? Baby? I love
you perfect, I love it. Well, guys, the Broncos are

(01:18:23):
heading in Seattle and take on the Seahawks this Monday. Well,
Russell Wilson have over under two hundred and thirty one
passing yards against the Broncos. I mean the Seahawks. Am
I up, I'm up, I'm up. That's a cool. I'm
gonna say over, I'm gonna stay over to thirty one.

(01:18:43):
I mean he asked if he did on that begging.
I'm complaining to get out so he could throw the ball.
So it they have to justify, right, Oh? Man, I
just don't believe in him this year. I don't know why. Yeah,
I don't, man, I don't. I don't believe in him either,
But I'm just saying I just think you he would
get enough to throw it because he wants to be showcased. Right,

(01:19:07):
He'll he'll throw to thirty one. Really, he'll get that. Yes,
that's five, baby, that's it. That's it. How do you
think Bucky did honestly the first time? You know, I'm saying,
I'm fibing off. I'll be off. Listen to you. You
know what if he wins, I'll tell you right now
if he if he wins this thing, I'm gonna ask

(01:19:27):
like some help. Is that? Okay? It could be Beginner's lug.
You gotta you gotta ride this. You're getting really you're
getting really choppy here, and all of a sudden, Yeah,
all of a sudden, you're like swaggering around too much.
You gotta be brought back down to earth. Well, you know,
you think he's gonna do that to me? I gotta

(01:19:48):
beat him with something. I mean, you know, were you
that kind of an athlete that you were great? And
ever you play? You probably played shortstop on baseball, and
you were a basketball player in high school too, right,
you did it all. I didn't play shortstop in the outfield,
but nat short that's when you look. It comes too
fast for me. Then I need to slow down. Winners

(01:20:08):
winners roll. There we go. Okay, he's Bucky Brooks. I'm
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(01:20:53):
the A K. Swollen Dome. Mr Mike harm at home, Mike,
how are you take it from? For you? Andy? Bucky
has been putting up with me for quite some time.
So you know, I was listening to the verbal pups
in the bottom barrel betting, and you know I had
to come in and ask your opinions. Obviously, Andy Furman
at Andy Furman FSR. Bucky Brooks at Bucky Brooks you

(01:21:14):
can tell me everything you hate about me at swall
Windom Fantasy lineup advice. I'll throw darts just like everybody else.
But I heard you guys getting after it a little bit.
There was some controversy on a couple of the calls.
So I'm gonna bring you one last thing. Did you
guys watch the boxing? And I used the air quotes
of Adrian Peterson and Levian Bell. You don't need to

(01:21:36):
watch much of it. Did it right? He took care
of business, Bucky. Did you see that thing? One big
heavy of it? Yeah, there's not much to a lot
of dancing, and then let let Bell laid him out.
So I found it kind of funny given the fact
that every time I've met Adrian Peterson throughout his collegian

(01:22:00):
into his professional career, he tries to break you with
a handshake where he tries to crush your hand. And
so the heavy hand of Levia Bell sent him sprawling
to the matt What was that? What was that bucket? Oh?
I forget where that even was. I'll look at him.

(01:22:20):
I heard about it, but I didn't see it, because
that was the important part of it, Andy, where it
was held. Yeah, I'm sure you needed a place to
see Adrian Peterson laid out, Yeah no, so that uh
that that didn't end well for him. In another fight,
Swaggy P took it up and he just said, I'm

(01:22:42):
out about some guy, a TikTok influencer named Minicon. Anybody anybody? Now?
He got a body blows in and then Swaggy P
just slid through the middle rope like he was a wrestler,
waving him off, saying I'm done with this, so I'm
out of here, and away he goes. Now, we've got
plenty of games to get to. You guys have done

(01:23:04):
through some of the board. We've got a lot of
games still to evaluate, uh and evisce rate and where
you will have more than our share of disagreements, no
question about it. We've got some sounders mixed. They're in
later on this hour, we'll we'll get into the Bucky's
Best where we go through a couple of the top

(01:23:25):
games of the week. We'll do that in about forty
minutes from now. But let's start things off with the
idea of these rivalry games, revenge games. And this may
be a stretch, fellas, this may be a stretch. I
heard you talking about this game in Bottom Barrel betting
with one of the unders that Bucky took. But let's
start there, all right. So we've got who's running the football.

(01:23:50):
It's Mike Davis. Yes, Mike Davis and your guy Lamar Jackson.
Seven points spread of Pete in the Yahoo world, which
is a very large sample size. I have picked Baltimore
to cover Jets with Joe Flacco Super Bowl m v P.
Everybody's man. Uh, He's got a couple of nice weapons.

(01:24:12):
Run game of Carter and Breece Paul. It could be interesting.
And they keep talking about sauce and putting sauce on
everything Ca Sauce Gardeners there on the other side. Is
that enough to slow down Lamar Jackson Bucky's take it first? No,
I think Lamar Jackson to Baltimore Ravens, get it. Bar
Jaxson is motivated to play at eide level. He is

(01:24:33):
going to kind of re emerge and re established himself
as a superstar in this league because he wants to
get paid. And you know, guys in their contract year
look at Aaron Judge and baseball Lamar Jas could do
some similar Yeah the points, Yeah, I would say this though,
Joe Flacco star in the game with Joe Flacco starting,
I think that puts to Jets behind the a brill

(01:24:53):
They limited an offense and that's not really good against
that Baltimore strong defense. I will tell you though, that
New York has gonna so want to keep it close,
but Baltimore is gonna win. I think they went by
a touchdown. I think the final something in that area.
But but Baltimo was just a better team. And I
think Bucky made a great point Bonn and Barrel Benning
earlier today, the fact that maybe Lamar may not run

(01:25:15):
as much as he should or would because of the
potential contract looming. That that was I was gonna circle
back to that. Andy. I'm glad you brought that up,
because you know, when we look at it, you know,
I've always said when hardball years ago, people wanted him
to change how they were running the offense and change
how Lamar was gonna play, And it's like, well, it
might burn out faster, but if that's what makes him

(01:25:37):
an a lead athlete and puts him in that upper echelon,
then why would you make any changes. Obviously, you want
him to be a better pocket presence and a better
passer between the tackles. But in terms of that making
a choice not to run, doesn't that make him a
lesser player? Bucky and kind of kill some of that
argument towards the max out deal. Um, you know, I

(01:26:00):
don't know. I think the thing is if the reports
are what we're seeing where they're talking about they offered
him a deal look upwards of two hundred and fifty
million dollars, but he didn't. Fool Um, I don't know
if it's abou him being a lesser player. I think
it's more so about trying to get the structure right.
The Ravens about all the counts have said they want
him to be the quarterback of the future. They just
couldn't get to deal with. Then when it comes to

(01:26:21):
the fully guarantees, we'll see if it flips into a
Kirk Cousin's Dak Prescott situation. But look, he's talented, he's
been an m v P. He's one. The only thing
that he can do is win more. Could you wear
more than the leverage tips back into his favorite two
more years? Certainly could do that Cousins thing with the
franchise tag, which would earn him probably over a hundred
million dollars when it's all said and done, I would

(01:26:43):
say this. I would say that I would think Lamar
Jackson would have already signed if he had an agent.
I think it's very very difficult not to be represented
by somebody. Buck. You would know that because you probably
had an agent. But to have his mother doing this
and you've got to sit there face to face with
personnel people, a general manager, ownership, and then to tell
you the negativities of your play. That's tough. That's real

(01:27:03):
tough to sit there and take that. You need an age,
you need a buffer in between. See, I don't I
don't know. Here's the deal, like with the two franchise tasks, right,
so he's playing twenty three million this year, he goes
up to your mid forties, going to be fifty four
the final year. So in three years he would have
made a hundred and twenty two million dollars. I want
to say, Russell Wilson maybe got a hundred and twenty

(01:27:26):
plus and guarantees, and I know people are worried about
what if he gets engine in this stuff. The reason
why the injury stuff went out the door is because
we saw dak Presscott get injured and still get his money.
So in Lamar Jackson's mind, he is trying to get
his money quicker and fully guaranteed. And he doesn't want
to sign a six year deal where the money stretched out.

(01:27:48):
He wants to be able to sign a short a
lot of guarantees so then he can have another bite
of the apple, maybe near the end of his career
and maybe when he's still got the all all of
his body and all his wherewithal to be the best
he could be. But part of it is raising his hand, going, hey,
can we can keep adjusting things so I can have
some longevity mixed in here as well. All right, next Jaguars,

(01:28:14):
let's get it two and a half open at three
and a half, two and a half point spread, Washington,
the whole favorite. Forty four is your total. And this
one Carson Wentz revenge game. Remember this is what God said.
It got him sent out on a rail. Is losing
to these Jaguars last year? You know this gave to me.

(01:28:37):
You know, if it was in my backyard, I closed
the curtains, I probably wouldn't even watch the game. Really,
But the fact that, yeah, the fact that that it is,
I'm very curious to see the Trevor Lawrence growth privacy. See,
you'd open those curtains really fast. Trevor Lawrence is the
key to this game. Every every game has a storyline,
as you know and Bucky knows. But the Trevor Lawrence
because right now he's expected to take a real big

(01:28:58):
leap in this year too, and he's got a new
coach and Doug Peterson, so we're gonna see it was
the coaching situation last year or the year on the
respect on the National Football League, and there's been a
few changes obviously to the defense in Washington. So Jacksonville, Uh,
they want to get Trevor Lawrence comfortable real early, so
we'll see what happens there. Comes in. You got all

(01:29:20):
the personnel ready to go for Trevor Lawrence. And I
don't know, culture is a pretty big deal, right yeah,
coach is pretty big deal. I think you can start one.
The way that the Washington Commanders played defense is pretty statics,
so it's easy to read and see what they're doing.
They're the guy. These guys in front that they have
are problematic. And then too you have Doug Peterson, who

(01:29:42):
is coaching against his former quarterback. He knows the ins
and house. Of course it wents. He knows what makes
him tick, he knows what makes him uncomfortable, so that
until we hope the Jaguars build a defensive plan that
maybe makes the veteran quarterback uncomfortable. To me, man, I
think this sets up for Jaguars going the road a
get a big Well, that's it right, You're still missing
Chase Young from that front. And remember even when those

(01:30:04):
guys were together, didn't play particularly well to start the
season before the Chase Young injury last year. So what
I'm curious to see though, as McLaurin and Johan Dotson,
whether they can find some level of comfort and and
really bringing in the fantasy world for a moment the
Ron Rivererian do well all he wants to try to

(01:30:25):
hype up Antonio Gibson once upon a time, a fantasy darling.
He's had trouble holding onto the football and that'll be
key to this matchup as to how much he you
can rely on him and make it a balanced attack.
You know whatever this means. But last year Washington quite
about Carson Wentz. He was sacked six times in Week
eight team when he played for the Colts against the

(01:30:47):
Jacks last year. So you know you mentioned a revenge game.
It's certainly it could have been the back of Carson Wentzz.
Mind today going against those Jags, but just remember how
much even Jim Rsey got into the public dis course
about Carson Wentz and the need to change up at
the quarterback position. This is Fox Football Sunday on Fox

(01:31:08):
Sports Radio and coming up next on Fox Football Sunday
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into a few more revenge Ishe games, but one in
particular Carolina and Cleveland. Baker Mayfield. What's he got cooking
from Miles Garrett and that Cleveland defense. We'll tell you
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(01:31:29):
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Ferman at Andy Ferman fs are from publicists to racetrack
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(01:32:14):
of Ficionado, not affiliated with the magazine in any way,
and obviously a long time radio host and columnist and
pundit and a man who keeps us surprised of all
things that he scours in the news cycle, which is
much appreciated by the stat Hey man, everybody needs a
hype man. Yeah, you're right, and I and I want

(01:32:36):
to hype you out. Come on, Bucky, go ahead, you
know you know Mike Harmon, go ahead, take care of them.
Know he's one one of the best in the business.
I did get a chance because I was flying, and
so I missed the battle of the academic powers question
in duke who who came out on top of that one? Harmon?

(01:32:59):
We fumbled at the one yard line. My man had
Hall had two hundred seventy eight total yards, didn't get
that to seventy nine. Bumbled into the end, Zoe Duke
your final. It's a bit lossie after what they did
last week. No, psychologically, I'm still affected by it, So
thank you for bringing that back up. Pal. I know

(01:33:22):
you're in North Carolina, tar heels one, so all's right
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presented by Bett m g M. Gentlemen, what do you
say we divvy up some more games. Let's get it up,

(01:34:06):
Brown said Panthers. Al Right, here we go. We've got
the Baker Mayfield. You love them, you hate him, whatever
you feel about him. Carolina one and a half point
favorites on the road. About two thirds of people a
little over than that, uh, jumping on board the Panthers bandwagon.
Christian McCaffrey, we saw him go on to the injured

(01:34:28):
list very very briefly, evidently got cleaded and they had
to deal with it. But as soon as there's any
injury notes on Christian McCaffrey, as you guys know, for
real football and for the fantasy kind, everybody loses their mind.
You got DJ Moore. You're trying to find a number
two wide receiver there for Baker and you're hoping that
maybe that offensive line has a little bit of juice.

(01:34:51):
But I don't know as I look at it. Trying
to stop Myles Garrett's gonna be a tall order for
that squad. What do you say, Bucky, you look, I
think the Carolina Panthers are in the campers seat just
because offensively they should have more fire. Problem with Baker Mayfield. Yes,
the Cleveland Browns defendants are going to be one to
get after him and those things. I just think the

(01:35:13):
combination of Baker Mayfield being able to get the ball
to Christian McCaffrey and some of the other websites on
the perimeter will be too much for Cleveland because I
don't think Cleveland is going to be able to score
much with Jacoba Pa said at quarterback. You know, I
love that. I love what you said, because look, I
know there's no Deshaun watching after the Browns, and they
do have a running back combo with Nick Chubb and
Kareem Hunt throwing the Dernis Johnson and that's pretty good.

(01:35:34):
But Baker Mayfield right there and you aid him with
a healthy Christian McCaffrey and d J. Moore, I honestly
believe that the Panthers will win this game, and they'll
win up by a touchdown or maybe even more. I
I like it. I like them a lot. At the
key is Christian McCaffrey staying healthy. And we talk about
health and injuries all the time, but he's such an
important aspect in that offense because he could catch the

(01:35:55):
ball out of the backfield as well as run. Well,
that's all you have right in in terms of he's
the cog in the machine. Chuba Hubbard last year acquitted
himself nicely in spots, but clearly the offense bogs down
with McCaffrey out. I look at Cleveland, I'm like, maybe
you don't have the same a list right one or
two or whatever he was drafted in your fantasy leagues,

(01:36:18):
and how much we love McCaffrey when he's right. But
you mentioned Chubb and Hunt, Andy uh Almari Cooper not
a slouch, Donovan, People's Jones is a guy to watch,
and then David and Joeku. If there's ever a time
for him to emerge as a chief option, it's here
with Jacoby Brissette. I'm not really trying to overhype Jacoby Brissette,
Aren't I a little bit you want? Honestly? After Marie Cooper?

(01:36:41):
Who is he gonna throw the ball too? If he
even throws the bull at all? Chubb, Kareem hunt In Joeku,
I don't know. I tried to sell, but maybe maybe
I went a little bit abridge too far. Maybe it
maybe it was all right, I wishing, wanting and hoping.
I'm getting no love from you guys there, So I'm
gonna move on to another game. Let's go cold, said

(01:37:04):
tech Sands. All right, Now, here's one that is interesting
to me on un many levels. No, Shaquille Leonard in
the heart of the Indianapolis defensive secondary that has some
questions and offensively well, obviously you have Taylor. You've got
a newly minted huge deal rolling up for Quentin Nelson.
Good job by him. Love to see guys getting big

(01:37:26):
time cash rolling up, especially the offensive lineman. Where we
can this one, guys is sitting there at a robust
seven or seven and a half depending on where you
got it. And that's a seven or seven and a
half point road favorite against Love Smith's Houston Texan Damian Pierce,
one of the heroes of the preseason, Nico Collins, a

(01:37:47):
second year guy, underrated. Brandon Cooks is their number one,
and Davis Mills, who was probably outside of Mac Jones,
the best rookie quarterback that you had running around the
fields last year. I'm looking for Love and Company to
pull a shock or anybody want to dive on board.
Yeah you are in and said, look last year, Jonathan,

(01:38:09):
they're running back Jonathan Taylor had games of one. That
was last year. Okay. Now they got Matt Ryan the
new quarterbacking the Colts. They have a wide receiver in
Michael Pittman Jr. They got some offensive firepowers, some balanced there,
and the Texas is talking about your Texas right now.
They got young pieces really young pieces theyn't need time
to develop. It ain't gonna happen today because the cults,

(01:38:29):
and it's certainly not gonna happen on an opening day.
Look at Bucky, he's trying to sell me that Matt
Ryan superstar candidate. So I'm going I'm going with wait
what he's a Hall of famer, he's a future Hall
of Famer. Wow that that that made me a stretch
just for being a stat aggregator. Come on a second, MVP,

(01:38:58):
then we can talk about it. Quinny quinn Nelson is happy,
so he's gonna protect him in the middle. Quinn Nelson
signed that big deal man I liked I liked him
when he was angry. So now we always talk about
guys getting fat and happy. Yet this guy's gonna be
meaner and leaner. No, he's he's happy, he's satisfied, he's comfortable.

(01:39:20):
He's gonna make sure that his quarterback is clean and
Matt r I showed you last year when he didn't
have anything around him with the Atlanta Falcons, did he
still gonna play pretty well? I think it's better now
next year in Atlanta, he was on his back more
than he was standing upright. Oh, I'm not gonna argue an,
I'm just saying it's been it's been a minute since
I'd look at Matt Ryan as more than maybe the

(01:39:41):
fifte best quarterback in the game. So this would be
a great reclamation. If he does, then what you guys
are asserting, he will, especially he is a future Hall
of Famer, he will be the It doesn't mean you
both can't be wrong because Bucky also caveat did that
with if he wins a second m v P as

(01:40:03):
him going to the Hall of Oh yeah, because I'm
predicting to going with the MVP. Like I say, he's
in the mix. He was. That's a good long shot. Bet.
So anybody that wants to go back up to one
of bet MGM or uh, you know your your place
of choice. I think there's uh, there's an interesting one
out to look at what the updated odds are. I

(01:40:25):
think he's gonna have the hell of a year. And
they talk about revenge years, and they talk about the
Baker Mayfield situation all that stuff. This is a revenge
here for him. This is his revenge year because Atlanta
screwed up when they're going after DeShawn Watson, and that's
why they should still have Matt Ryan. They screwed up.
He's happy he's out of there, I'm sure. Well, we
can always go back and figure out what the timelines

(01:40:48):
were on all this, and because if it was before
any of the accusations on Deshaun Watson, you wouldn't want
the guy that's considered a top five quarterback that's that
young going forward, where Matt Ryan is two thousand and
eight draft you got him in Flacco quarterbacking today. That's great,
but we we can't say that either of them has
another four or five years in them, can we know?

(01:41:09):
So if you were able to move on and a
mass talent, would you not have made the same move
prior to twenty four allegations? No doubt about that, Yeah,
of course. But the point is that they had him
and he would be a great teacher. But there's been
ridder and now we're just gonna learn from who you know,
you know, really, I mean and Rid and eventually Mario

(01:41:32):
come on. But the riddam they end up studying at
the three or four games, well, that's the more of
an indictment of where we're at with the Falcons as
an organization not necessarily related to their pursuit of Deshaun Watson.
He's Andy Furrman, and that that's Bucky Brooks. I'm Mike Carmen.
We're having some spirited fun and excitement here. If you
haven't figured it out, we've all ingested a lot of
caffeine this morning as we rolled through on Fox Foot

(01:41:55):
Falls Sunday. Now for an update on those m D
p ods, we're gonna send it over to our guy Nick.
I'm on, let's tell you guys, all right. So currently
this is on Vegas Insider dot com. Matt Ryan is
twenty three down the list in terms of m V
pods at plus eight thousand. He is behind the likes

(01:42:16):
of Mitchell Trobiskie a plus six thousand, to a tongue
of Voloa at five thousand, Mac Jones, Kirk Cousins, Cooper Cup,
Jonathan Taylor all at plus five thousand. How about Trevor
Lawrence up at plus four thousand as well. So there's
a little bit of sampling. Ryan just ahead or on top,

(01:42:36):
probably Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, I'm sure right, Josh
Allen plus five hundred. Currently Mahomes plus seven fifty, Brady
plus eight, Joe Burrow. Burrow is at plus twelve. You've
got Rogers and Herbert at plus nine before you get
to Burrow. So that's that's your top six right there
a little bit. OK, had to get your guy in

(01:42:59):
aswords of our chases while you're at it. Uh, he
is at plus twelve thousand, five hundred. He is down
the list and he's Jill Mixon. Maybe in the two.
I'll have to do a control lef on that really quick.
See they all split the mode. Alright, Nick, what do
you got plus fifteen thousand on Joe Mixon? By the way. Alright,

(01:43:22):
so we got some quarterback news this morning. YESPN reports
the Ravens offered quarterback Lamar Jackson an extension worth up
to two hundred ninety million dollars over six years, but
Jackson turned it down because it wasn't fully guaranteed. NFL
Meter reporting the Packers unlikely to have either of their
starting tackles today against the Vikings. That's left tackle David

(01:43:43):
back Try and right tackle Elton Jenkins. ESPN RA is
reporting that the Rams they were interested in grabbing quarterback
Jimmy Garofalo if he was released by the forty Niners,
which of course he was not. And speaking of the Niners,
they are likely to be without and George Kittle today
against the Bears. He has not practiced all week. While

(01:44:04):
we do know that the Falcons their receiver Drake London,
Bucks receiver Chris Godwin, and Saints receiver Michael Thomas, they
are all expected to play in college football on Saturday.
Not a good day to be a top ten team,
three of them going down Number six Texas A and
M against Appalachian State seventeen fourteen and favor of app

(01:44:25):
uh number eight Notre Dame falling to Marshall. Number nine
Baylor suffering a tough one on the road in double
overtime to number twenty one b y U. Final score
Cougars over the Bears twenty six to twenty. Number one
Alabama wasn't far off from joining that group. They escaped
Austin with a twenty tonineteen win over Texas. Rest of

(01:44:46):
the top ten, pretty drama free Michigan. By the way,
they've named a starting quarterback. Finally, J. J. McCarthy is
gonna be there guy moving forward. Finally, coming up today,
US Open will have the Men's Final teenage phenomen Harlos Alcarez,
the number three seed faces the fifth seed, Casper rude
Al Right. Back to you guys, Mike, Candy and Pookie.
Thanks Nick, appreciate you. At and cope K double o

(01:45:11):
p give him a follow. I'm just smart enough to
do it now. I'm sorry, Nick, I was remiss. Welcome
to the party here Fox Football Sunday Mike Armen alongside
Andy Firm and Bucky Brooks. We're having a blast, as
you can tell, these spirited debates, and it's week one.
Just think of when we actually have some data and
have an idea of what the hell's going on with

(01:45:33):
any of these teams, because right now, everybody's feeling good
about themselves, gentlemen. All right, maybe not Seattle, although I
think they're interesting. This week. Chargers fans there are feeling themselves.
We're having the invasion of the Raiders here in Chicago.
It's gonna be in the upper sixties and reigning, which
is gonna do wonders for that new UH field that

(01:45:56):
they just put down. Really good job, Park District. But
that's why Arlington Heights is gonna look so pretty in
just a couple of years, more monologues and ranting at
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and find Bucky NFL dot Com, NFL Network and of
course at Bucky Brooks on Twitter. Back into the games.

(01:46:17):
Let's get it on Packers and Vikings. That this is
one's interesting. As you heard from Nick's update, we're talking
about an offensive line and when that's a theme that
we've had quite a bit of, guys is emissions of
big time players on the old line, missing tackles, Packers
and narrow one and a half point favorite on the

(01:46:38):
road at Minnesota, slight fifty six percent in terms of
public appeal when it comes down to picking this game,
Aaron Rodgers, no Lazard, looking for Tonyon to return, and
an awful lot of Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon
to make things move. But the issues on the offensive
line concerning. But on the other side, you've got one

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of the best defenses in the game and a guy
and Kirk Cousins that encouraged time has been known to
come up small. Bucky, I'll throw it to you first.
What are we looking at in this NFC North battle?
You know this is because the Robberry game and in
the Robberry game. It is intense like that. It comes
down to quarterback play. As you talked about and alluded
to with Kirk Cousins, he normally doesn't play great in

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these environments. That's it. Kevin O'Connell has a relationship with
Kirk Cousins. Difference seats. This time in Minnesota, this offense
is going to be more Kirk Cousins centric. So I
can't think Minnesota finds a way to get some stuff done.
Anyone's saying with you, I'm with you on that. Now,
we know Aaron Rodgers one of the best quarterbacks perhaps

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of all time, and it's gonna be the first time
he's gonna be seen in live action with couples of
receivers right now. And look, he doesn't have Davante Adams.
He went free agency to the Vegas and then they
got Alan Lazard's out, Sammy Watson's there. So after Aaron
Jones a J. Dillon, they're gonna get some action. Maybe
for the play action with those guys getting the ball
out of the bat field, but honestly, with that hurting

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up front with two offensive lineman out, I just don't
see Aaron Rodgers in that hostile environment as well. That
offensive line is not gonna be in tune. You have
to have like a unit up there, and they're not
being playing together. I think that the Vikings win this game.
It's been close, it's gonna be close. I think Minnesota
wins this game because I think that Kurt Cousins has

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has to control the ball, has to control the passing game,
get it going early, but do not turn the ball over.
Certainly a retooled defense coming forth four Minnesota. We're talking
about green Bay and some of those other receiving options.
Heard a lot about Christian Watson and certainly Romeo Dobbs
in the preseason. So when we're looking at our daily

(01:48:48):
fantasy leagues, yeah, maybe you throw a little bit of
love because they're not gonna cost you a ton steady
h thirty seventh year in the league. I exaggerate because
it's fun. Marcedes Lewis still getting after it as the
tight end for green Bay in this one. I do
call have the note of caution. Andy you you worked
with our guy Jonas Knox for a number of years.
Bucky you have as well. What of the what is

(01:49:09):
one of the greatest stats he would bring out with
great regularity. If Kirk Cousins isn't in the early window,
I want no part of him. And he's not in
the early window today, Fellast. Well, historically, well, we'll chase
down those numbers for next hour, Bucky, as we revisit
some of the big games on the week. But historically

(01:49:32):
it is, uh, it's a blood bath and anything that
isn't a one pm start Eastern time. Next Chiefs at Cardinals. Oh,
here we go. Let's get it on with the Kansas
City Chiefs, depending on where you got it and started
way back when as a field goal plus. Now we're

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looking at a robust six or six and a half
on the road at Arizona. As we look at it,
Hatrick Mahomes, he's got Kelsey and he's got a bunch
of guys that everybody's trying to figure out exactly how
the offense is gonna run. That's suddenly Andy Reid and
his offensive acumen, going back to when he was running
random guys out in Philadelphia, has suddenly been lost. MVS

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comes over from Green Bay. You've got mcole Hardman, you
got Jujuice Smith Schuster getting to roam a little bit.
The running back position always a little bit dicey. But
you've got Arizona. Yes, zach Ertz will be available. How
ready is he Ron Dale more? You guy? They were
expecting big things from not gonna be available. Chase Edmonds

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isn't there anymore. He's a pivotal cog down in the
Miami offense. So you've got a lot of change here.
And James Conner is three yards in a cloud of
dust and wishing, wanting, hoping for goal line touches. I'm
looking for Kansas City in a road route here in
week one, Andy got start with you. What are you look?
The Chiefs have never lost the season. Open to a

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quote about Patrick Mahomes his his daughter, but this is
the fer team that she Okay, they got it with
just offensively, they got no longer have the speedy wide
receiver and Tyreek Hill. That's number one. These teams play
in a shootout. It's gonna come down to the final
possession and kind of Kylee Murray is gonna leave the
Cardinals on a late drive. They're gonna win on a
late field goal. I'll tell you right now that the

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Kansas City Chiefs are not the same team they've been
in the past. They can put out the points. They
lose a little bit defensively in the battfield. Tara Matthew
is not there either, so I think it's gonna be
a high scoring game. I think the Cardinals eke it
out at the end, something like thirty four at the
end of the ball game. What do you think here
and a half the total? I think the Chiefs running

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out the stadium. But I think they're do it in
a way that's different than the way that we've seen before. Um,
this is an opportunity for Pat Mahomes to grow and
grow in a major way. I was with Andy Reid
shortly after Brat Fav lost Sterling sharp to me, this
is a very similar situation that made Brett Fav learned
how to play what we call real quarterback, use all

(01:52:00):
the options that are available in each route concept. We
would now see that from the Kansas City Chiefs, big
of a variety of person nail packages for Mason's better
destriction distribution of the ball. Pat Mahomes plays at a
high level that Steve's get this one done, He's Bucky
go ahead and Black don't need to mention the fact
that J. J. Watts gonna be out of Arizona as well. Oh,

(01:52:22):
I just assumed that. I'm sorry, no, well just from
a J. J. Watt, am I assuming he's on or
off the field more more regularly. But but he's I
think he's out for the game. So he is. He
certainly is. But you know, you look at what that
offense defensive line could be if he's healthy. They but
we're going back to the last couple of years in Houston.

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He's a He's an odd even kind of guy at
this point as to whether you're gonna get him. Zach Allen,
an underrated player on the defensive tackle doesn't get a
lot of love, but a guy that can make some
things happen. But yeah, J J. Watt, I'm gonna miss
this one and not quite sure exactly when he's gonna
get back on the field. Very difficult proposition going forward.

(01:53:07):
I didn't mean to be glib. These guys are all
a million times tougher than I am. But I'm the
guy with the microphone. So that's the way this works.
He's and you know what, you know, they know where
we're at. They can find the address easily enough. As
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(01:53:29):
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Destined to lose that one, so I move on. But
last year we had a lot of upsets Week one
in the National Football League. We'll see if that continues.
Ten new well nine new head coaches, and Lovey Smith,
however you want to categorize them. Uh, there's an article
Bucky Brooks our guy wrote up on NFL dot com
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(01:54:35):
you gotta go through his whole archive. You'll be a
lot smarter. You got about four hours before kickoff to
read through his lengthy biography. Maybe we should bind him
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It's Fox Football Sunday, Mike Carmon, Andy Furman, and Bucky
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(01:54:56):
sense of humor and this time slot. Uh. Soon enough,
we've got a couple big games and we want to
tag these as Bucky's best. So let's go to our
first game Raiders as Oh, here we go. We'll have
the battle here we what are we thinking? Seventy thirty
eighty something like that. A little bit later on Bucky

(01:55:19):
your podcast partner, Daniel Jeremiah, he'll be on the call
as the Chargers and the Raiders get after the Chargers
a three point favorite. Here. About two thirds of the
population that are making their picks available or saying, hey,
we think Justin Herbert is going to run rough shot.

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Derek Carr a lot of credit. We're going through adversity.
Last year, they bring in Davante Adams, his old friend.
You got Hunter renfro and Darren Waller just celebrating a
massive contract as well. But they've got five guys up
front that we can't name them and we don't think
they're very good in that offensive line to protect Derek Carr.
So that being said, Chargers add some more pieces on

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the defensive side of things. You got Austin Ekeler as
a runner and receiver, one of the tops in the game.
Did the Chargers run away in week one? Or is
the hostile environment? And I know it's sad to say
when it's a home game, Uh, does the hostile environment
play a role? Look? Man, I actually think the Raiders

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have all the favor in this one leap coming off
of the wind. Last year at the end of the
year to go into else we saw the raging Jen
put It was a different coaching staff. Remember Josh mcdames
was the offins coordinated. When New England punch two charges
in the mouth with a running game, I expect to
see more of the same. They're gonna run right at
the charge and see if they fix their running game
woes and without j c. Jackson. I don't know how

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the Charges cover all the weapons on the Drimmer Darren Waller,
Davante Adams, Hunter Renfro looks like a lot of problems
to me for the Charges. I know, Khalil mckinjoy both
said there. I just like the running game and I
liked where they can throw it on the perimeter. Fuck,
I love you to death, but you're so wrong on
this one because the Charges passing game is gon dominate defense,
a secondary defense that's very suspect. Joey Boza, Khalil Matt

(01:57:10):
They're gonna exploit that rate as weak offensive line. Sorry,
Derek Carr. I know you've got Davante Adams right now,
but you may be looking up with him today rather
than looking eye to eye with him. Tell you what,
I am interested in watching how the Chargers offensive line
with my guy Rashawn Slater shoutout Northwestern. Uh, they're able
to handle Chandler Jones and Max Crosby up front. That

(01:57:32):
is a matchup that is Taylor made for a heavyweight fight. Alright,
next game. So who do you like? Oh? I said,
I like the Chargers right up, the Jones and Cowboys Bucketeers,
two and a half point favorite down the road at Dallas.
Fifty is your total for this one. Both teams with

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many offensive line questions. Sents a theme in Week one
of the league, many many teams with their issues Dallas. Also,
who's catching the ball from Dak Prescott one of those
things that we have to ponder along the way. Noah Brown,
a bit of a journeyman who's now the number two
option with Michael Gallup not available for this one. We're

(01:58:17):
looking at the defense. We know Digs, we know Michael
Parsons getting after it, and DeMarcus Lawrence is healthy and
ready to go here for the opener for Tampa. Offensive
line questions, but nobody better at getting the ball out
quickly than Tom Brady. Chris Godwin expected to go in
this one as well, alongside Mike Evans and Julio Jones, who,

(01:58:38):
at least for Week one is mighty curious to me.
What do you think, buck Man? This is a tough
one because I got a quarterback who looks like he's
having remorse for coming back out of retirement. It's Tom Brady.
And then I'm looking at a Cowboys offense that just
does enough have enough firepower I'm going to the tam
Bay Buccaneers just because Tom Brady as a way to

(01:59:00):
grind it through. But I'm not very very confident in
this pick. You know, I understand what you're saying, but
because of predicting that the cline of Tom Brady has
never really fair well for anybody. But I will tell
you this much today, I think it's gonna be Cowboys Day,
Cowboys winning double digits today. Tom Brady being away from
twenty camp was he with the timing factors like and
also his center has gone Gentsen's out. That's a big

(01:59:20):
deal for him. So I think that the suspect offensive line,
him being away, and the game being in Dallas all
points to the Cowboys. I'll say this that the game's close,
I'll take you coaching over McCarthy Andy. Finally Denver on
the road at Seattle, the homecoming for Russell Wilson. Six
and a half or seven is your total in this

(01:59:41):
one going up forty three the over under Gino Smith
under center. I've gotta hit this one pretty quickly. Uh
for me, I'm taking Seattle in the upset. Wow, I'm
going straight up. I'll take the points, but I don't
need him here. I'm with you on that. I believe

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this is the revenge game for the Seahawks. I think
they were tired of the deva quarterback in This is
an opportunity for them to get it. Let's go to
Seahawks plan in front of the twelves. A long going
with the Broncols. You got two backups in Gino Smith
and Drew Lock. They just don't have the firepower. That
can't win no way. Melvin Gordon to be featured quite
a bit alongside Javonte Williams. It will be an interesting game. Andy,

(02:00:22):
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of the early games. We got one game in the books, obviously,
the Buffalo bills be down of the Los Angeles Rams
and everything that flows out of that, because there was
a story this morning that kind of confirms something I'd

(02:01:08):
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My man? Mike? You're fired up? I mean we're all
all the smack talk, all of the road stoppages and

(02:02:14):
pre seasons and all of this fun stuff. All the
speculation goes out the window and we actually kicked the
ball off. Yeah, we're kicking it off this weekend, and
it should be fun. It's always great when you get
the beginning of the season because all the stuff that
we talked about in the off season, you know, it
all goes out the door because then we're playing real football.
All the stuff that has been put together on paper,

(02:02:34):
it doesn't matter. When you play real ball, we get
to see it. And this week, the first week of
the season, we always see a handful of upsets. Yeah,
last year we had a number of big time upsets
and a lot of well underdogs. Covering for the betting
part of things, obviously, we'll have the bet MGM pregame
show coming up here on Fox Sports Radio, and about

(02:02:56):
fifty five minutes from now, we'll give you all the
particulars as we go forward here on Fox Football Sunday.
But we got seven divisional matchups right off the jump,
the quote unquote revenge games. To take those for what
they will, players and coaches and everybody else. You can
always find someone to have beef with. On the other side,
I would imagine at any level. I mean I see

(02:03:19):
it with my my daughter's soccer team for crying out
loud in their teenagers. Oh yeah, we played that team
three years ago. I wasn't part of the team. Doesn't matter.
It's got an institutional memory that comes with you along
the way. But I don't want to do a deep
dive on the the RAMS bills. That's been done and
I know you and Andy covered it a little bit.
But as we know, the audience always changing here in

(02:03:40):
the radio windows. Bucky four turnovers, no punts, demolition right
acts and smashed the Road Warrior knockoffs of wrestling lore.
But we watched the bills give us again away from
the four turnovers, which are just curious, and we'll see

(02:04:02):
more of Devin Singletary than I think everybody uh anticipated
why he actually held onto the ball ladies and gentlemen um.
And then he had one interception, not Alan's fault. The
other one, Uh the receiver ran a bit of a
soft route uh and got undercut. So you have that
going through. But the bigger thing is the defending champs
coming in. You've got Cooper cup puts up monster numbers,

(02:04:25):
the rest of the offense invisible, and the offensive line
now banged up. We saw Matthew Stafford sacked seven times
and Sean McVeigh with the pointed criticism of cam Akers
who many fantasy owners were expecting greatness from you, and
I discussed that in the week leading up, where in
my world the best you were getting was a fifty

(02:04:46):
fifty split with Henderson because Acres is the guy in
theory they'd want later on. But there was a video
going around on an ol a block that he did
where he bailed from his position and let Matthew Stafford
get absolutely trucked a defensive lineman. That's gonna find you
the sidelines for quite some time. Uh. That's that is
one that you get that on tape, that'll stick with

(02:05:08):
you forever. But that offensive line concerning I am I?
Am I overreacting to a game one against a really
good team. Or should I be concerned if I might
have put some uh some of my juice towards the
Rams in a fantasy or betting capacity. No, you should
be concerned because you got a chance to see him.

(02:05:29):
It's one thing to speculated about how the team will perform.
There's another thing to have hard data after watching them.
When you watch the Rams, the struggles on the offensive
line are real and appearent. They couldn't contain Von Millinore
any of the other guys up front for the Buffalo Bills.
The running game, uh, wasn't shown enough commitment by the
head coach, so you couldn't balance it out to slow

(02:05:51):
down the Buffalo Bills. And then in the on the perimeter.
I know Allen Robinson was a big signing, but it
appeared to be Cooper Cup and nobody else in the
passing game. And so if this is the version of
the Rams that we can see the rest of the season,
they're gonna have a tough time because they are always
going to get everybody's best shot. They have to be

(02:06:11):
ready for that and they have to make sure that
they have enough fire proper to be able to handle it. Now. Immediately,
people will go back to Robinson's finale with the Bears,
where clearly he was not getting along with anybody on
that coaching staff and has had some pointed comments after leaving.
But the invisibility, the cloak of invisibility. Now I'm getting
some more Harry Potter nerds stuff into this. How much

(02:06:34):
of that is a reflection of the timing because Matthew
Stafford wasn't available for all those practices and the fact
that that offensive line was a sieve versus uh an
indictment on Robinson himself. I think it's a work in progress.
You know. You have to remember the Rams are one

(02:06:55):
of the teams that don't play their guys in preseason games.
They elect to put all their eggs and the joint
practice bucket games are different them practices, and they found
out quickly that they have to kind of ramp it
up when it comes to the urgency and the intensity
that is needed to play the chemistry and the continuity
with Alan Robinson and some of the other past catchers

(02:07:15):
and the and and on the perimeter. That takes time too,
And so we have to treat the first four games
of the regular season like preseason games as teams are
figuring out their real identity. But it's still a little
concerning that the Rams struggled on offense and they had
a tough time slowing down to Buffalo Bills on defense
and watching guys run past Jalen Ramsey is uh not

(02:07:39):
not what fans see in Week one. No, so I
think he's given up four plays of six years more
in the for the last six games. It is becoming
more of a trend than an anomaly, and so there's
something to look at and to keep an eye on.
People are going at him, but they're going at him

(02:07:59):
with the deep ball. He has to make the correction
and make sure he doesn'tcome a live builty on that part.
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(02:08:20):
kick off. Get you some the updates as we do.
Isaac Lowan kron now in keeping an eye on all
the injury notes and everything that's going on. Last thing
with the Rams before we move on to what is
I think the one game that I don't think has
been covered yet is the report this morning that Jimmy
Garoppolo was on the radar for said Rams. Had he

(02:08:42):
been released, well partially one of the reasons I would
believe he wasn't being released. Uh, And not to mention
all the internal questions regarding Trey Lance at all, But
I like when I I theorized like that, Bucky and
it gets confirmed by noted. Make you feel pretty smart
with my sparkly ad to start Week one of this

(02:09:02):
NFL season. Well, I mean, I think that's doing your
due diligence. If you're the l A Rams and you
know that Jimmy Garoppolo is out there. The most important
position in football is the quarterback. We talked about it
all the time, yet we appear to have issues when
teams invest in that position. If Jimmy Garoppolo was available,

(02:09:24):
why not keep the tires on him and maybe bring
him in as a backup to Matt Stafford. Matt Stafford
was also having issues with the elbow. So now, if
you lose your starter for a long time, you want
a capable starting quarterback that can keep the ball rolland
Jimmy Garoppolo could have done that, and we have seen
shot maybe a scheme around the deficiencies of other quarterbacks
in the past. Yeah, that was a curiosity we had.

(02:09:46):
Jay Glazer on after the game on Thursday, reminded us
that Stafford played with a lot of the discomfort and
issues with the elbow a year ago. That doesn't mean
he's getting through another seventeen games plus playoffs. Right, It's
like notter how tough a guy is, and if the
injury is there, it potentially sidelines him. So you don't

(02:10:07):
want to be caught, especially the way you've invested in
the short term with all these stars. No, you don't
want to get a cart short and so your job
as a general manager and the team building is to
make sure that I anticipate the potential pitfalls of our season.
So where's the roster weekend? Where do we have holes?
Where do we need to upgrade? I need to always

(02:10:29):
look at other teams, possible trade options, possible waiver wire
claims that we can get to fortify the back end
of our roster. To me, this is smart business. Um,
Jimmy Garoppolo as a backup quarterback would have been a
great situation for the l A Rams. He's Bucky Brooks
on my Carmen. Alright, let's get to that final game

(02:10:52):
on this week one schedule. Giants said tight ends there
you go Tennessee Titans five gonna have point favorites. About
three quarters of people just penciling in Bryan Tannehill, Derrick
Henry and company as they flow. For me, the New
York Football Giants are an interesting collection. Can you actually

(02:11:14):
call anything from Golladay and Tony two guys? Well, Golladay,
you paid a lot of money to bring in Tony,
you paid a lot of draft capital to bring in
He got one Dale Robinson who probably gonna play a
bigger role on offensive line with Evan Neil there, and
then it's Jones and Barkley. Can I at any point

(02:11:34):
ponder them winning this game? I mean, yeah, they always
can win it. They can win it if the game
is played on their turns, meaning they're able to create turnovers.
They're able to generate a couple of plays early in
the contest that gets their confidence going. But on the
on paper, no, this looks like this should be a
slug fest that hit in the Titans direction. The one

(02:11:57):
thing I will say, Wink Martindale take over that defense.
More attention should be placed on that than uh what
the like with Brian Dave All and Daniel Generals. Defensively,
they can get after. I think, wait, Martindale can make
life miserable for the Titans early. I still expect the
Titans to win, but I think this game would be
a lot closer than UH many would expect. Hoping the

(02:12:20):
original Quadzilla actually goes back to the advanced building that
he had, looking like he did as a rookie. Say
Kwan Barkley, he's healthy and loaded for bare in week one,
so tempted. It's kind of like the Christian McCaffrey thing.
It's like, I gotta celebrate him while he's on the field. Look,
if he's healthy, he does bring a different dimension to

(02:12:41):
that offense. His ability to run the football but really
make big plays in the passing end debt to help
because now you have an easy checkdown option for your quarterback.
Data open up maybe some things uh down the field
because if you have to pay close attention to Sae
Kwon Barkley, maybe commit two defenders on him in the
passing game. You talk about Tony and Kenny Golladay being

(02:13:02):
able to get open. Eventually, maybe they'll get to that.
I just don't think this is the week I'll go
to Titans. See. I like the chaos potential on both sides, right,
everybody in New York, Well, they got the Yankees collapse
and the Mets being caught by the Braves to worry about.
But you know the fish wrap. NFL will take lead
if it goes badly, conversionally, conversonally, if the Titans come

(02:13:25):
out slow, I mean, how much did it would seem
they're ready to on some level move forward from Bryan Tannehill,
although I know that Willis is ready yet he's not,
but he's sure. It's fun to watch, no question about
the preseason. You got a chance to see him run
around and do all that stuff, and so we talked
about fantasy. From a fantasy perspective, you could already start

(02:13:47):
salivating over the Russian yards and touchdowns that he'll put up.
And so maybe it's the fantasy football lover and meet
us like you know, well, he get bad, you know, um,
But it's it's the interesting thing to look at. It's
anything thing to consider. Um. But I think it's Ryan
Santego's team, and I think tonight there won't be an

(02:14:09):
opportunity for them to talk about Millie Willis because the
Titans should be one and want to know that's it.
That's the goal for all of us today, folks on
the football field, in the life, go one to know today.
He's Bucky Brooks ull bike comment. Thanks to the team.
We got Tab, we got Chris, we got Ilo holding
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at Sunday morning, Week one beestivities underway and coming up

(02:14:31):
next we'll talk about the second year quarterbacks and the
expectations of them to emerge and Thriver maybe collapse under
the heavyweight of expectations, as well as the Sunday night
football game. What really going on in Tampa. We'll throw
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each and every Sunday, we're having a blast as we
get ready for Week one of the NFL. All of
the preambles, all of the wishing, wanting, hoping, reality is
gonna punch people in the mouth here in about three
and a half hours from now as we get ready
for it. But one thing, as we're looking at just realities,
and when I say reality, let's put the capital are

(02:16:22):
on it. Not reality shows, not anything fabricated. All the rumor, conjecture,
speculation as related to what's going on with Tom Brady
off the field, hope he and his family are well,
depending on what you're reading, you've got a wide range
of things as to his non football life as related

(02:16:42):
to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Bucky, we're looking at
an offensive line that's got to be shuffled before you
even get started, and you're missing your center who you
convinced to stick around. Uh, certainly a big hurt there.
You've got Godwin who's expected to play for nets still
in the backfield. I think enough component parts that they're

(02:17:03):
still gonna be able to give the Dallas Cowboys trouble.
But how much of this off the field stuff starts
to seep into the locker room where Brady's got to
maybe account for more of it to his teammates or
just based on the twenty two years in the history,
is it just all right? You do you? We'll see
out in between the white lines who I don't know. Man,

(02:17:27):
It's tough because, like normally, UM, you kind of lead
those personal things out the locker room. You support the
player what he's going through, and you can't leave it be.
You let him kind of open up and do it.
You do want it because a lot of it is
beginning to hit the front pages and stuff like that.
Will you address it may be suggested in team meetings,
but normally after his touchdown it talked about guys have

(02:17:50):
a great way of being able to compart bent all
lot of things and kind of go on and so, uh,
it's obviously tough because it's kind of hanging over the organization,
but I think I think he can handle it. Man.
I think they can still figure out a way to
kind of get it done without it being something that
is really distracting from the focus of the team and

(02:18:13):
winning games and that stuff. I've still got them forging
a path towards Arizona, so you can tell how much
I think it'll distract. I guess just in the initial
offings of this based on missing a week and a half.
But there's anybody that you would give the benefit of
the doubt too. He's earned earned that right, I think
from us in the outside world anyway. Certainly he's earned

(02:18:38):
their right to kind of have his tough you know, like,
here's the thing about the National Football League, and did
say you like, everyone is treated fairly, but you may
not be treated equally. Jills that you have on the wall,
the more things that you've been able to accomplish, you
do get a little leeway, and so for him, he
certainly has a little leeway because I don't know if

(02:19:00):
there's anyone who has won like he has won in
this league, and so that certainly allows him to kind
of curry favor. Well, we always talk about star rules
no matter what the business, and certainly for Tom Brady, Uh,
this one stretches what you could probably do in most businesses. Hey,
I'm just disappearing for a week and a half, uh
and and not have to answer for it. But it's

(02:19:21):
the nature of the business. And he's accountable to the does,
the family and obviously the coaching staff and to his
squad Todd Bowls. He's been there, he's been around it,
so he's seen it live in living color of these
last couple of years. So certainly no no different uh
kind of pace there. I'm just curious from the Dallas
side of things, with all the issues they've got on

(02:19:43):
the offensive line. And I hate to sound like a
broken record, but as much as we love Dak Prescott,
I think is actually in a promo right now, there's
a lot of quarterbacks that we love. Those front five
aren't working. It doesn't matter if you're constantly fleeing. You know,
you can only throw so well off balancing and on
the run and from being uh well taken down violently

(02:20:06):
as we've seen so many times. So for Dak Prescott,
I mean, I think that's one of the big questions
because right now you've got Dalton Schultz and you've got
a bunch of questions in your receiving corps behind Ceedee Lamb.
As to who's available to you, Yeah, um, you want
who's going to merge as the guy that you can
lean on, who's going to merge as the person that

(02:20:28):
you can lean on in the past game outside of Ceedee.
Lamp celm is terrific and he can do a bunch
of different things as a number one receiver that maybe
even better than what Amari Cooper offered. But the drop
office band from number one to number two, Michael Gallup
is in there, and I think Michael Galloper is really
a solid number two, maybe a loe a solid to
mid number two, but not necessarily a high end guy

(02:20:51):
that is going to kind of command U double teams
and those things where he's out. So now you go
down to Norah Brown, who man You're talking about a
fringe uh refour type player that completely changes how you
defend this attack right now, like you don't give them
any any kind of special attention. You put all the
double team and all the extra stuff you loaded towards

(02:21:11):
Ceedee lamps direction, and it maybe even Dalton's show us
because he's the next one up. But outside of that,
there's no one in the passing game that scares you.
And for the Cowboys as that's a problem. Yeah, Jalen
Tolbern from all reports has struggled mightily in the practice sessions. Obviously,
we saw what we did in training camp. Uh, in
the exhibition games in the backfield, Ezekiel Elliott, you know,

(02:21:35):
in the best shape of his life or whatever they
want to push uh. And the guy that I'm curious
about is Tony Pollard. Is does he start lining up
in the slot and make himself available there, you care,
where they can find a ring and wrinkle there and
and buys them an extra receiver while they wait for
Gallup to get back. That might, I mean, that might
be something they considered. We for reports coming out of

(02:21:57):
Cowboys camp about him being utilized and him and Ezekiel
l a being utilized on the field. At the same time,
he does have a background where he has run ross before.
He does catch the ball very well, and it's another
way to put him on the and do some creative things,
not only in the passing game, but maybe you use
them as a guy who can run jet sweeps and
those things, get out to the perimeter and all of that.

(02:22:19):
So yeah, it's there's a lot to consider, there's a
lot to um maybe entertained. If you're killing more, you
have to get creative to kind of make do with
what you have. So we'll see. I think it's a
great test for killing Moore. He's Bucky Brooks on Mike Carmen,
coming to you from the Fox Sports Radio tire Rack
dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh and coming up next,

(02:22:42):
we'll dive into your latest column on NFL dot com
kind of talking about guys that we shouldn't sleep on
and one team in particular that maybe you want the
bandwagon to slow it's use of materials, maybe building up
a little too fast. We'll get into that next year,
but first it's over to Isaac lowand kron at Isaac

(02:23:02):
Loan Crown because he's getting ready for a full day
of Chargers action. What's going on, Buddy High. Yes, blood
is weeping down the walls, dogs are forming into packs.
It must mean that the Raiders are in town. Great
way to kick off the season, Fellas. We got a
ton of NFL news already on this first Sunday of

(02:23:23):
the season. ESPN reporting the Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson
turned down a six year extension worth up to two
hundred and ninety million dollars because it was not fully guaranteed,
only a hundred and thirty three million dollars of it.
We're guaranteed. I've been there anyway. NFL media reported that
the bulk of Tom Brady is mysterious eleven day hiatus

(02:23:46):
in August was spent with his family at a private
resort in the Bahamas. Your meaning it wasn't the mask
singer after all. Anyway, that made good on a mid
retirement promised that he made the vacation with him in
August for the first time in two decades. NFL media
also reporting Saints receiver Michael Thomas is likely to play
today against the Falcons. Indianapolis Colts guard Quentin Nelson's agreed

(02:24:08):
to a four year, eighty million dollar extension, making them
the highest paid guard in NFL history. Three top ten
teams went down in college football on Saturday. Appalachian State
what at sixth rank Texas A and m seventeen to fourteen,
And get this guy's. ESPN notes that Appalachian State actually
had travel issues after the game and spent the night

(02:24:29):
in their hotel that they had already checked out of
in the lobby, conference rooms, and hallways before finally flying
out of college station at five am Central time this morning. Marshall,
what an eighth rank Notre Dame twenty one, number twenty
one b y U knocked off ninth rank Baylor and
double overtime twenty six to twenty And that's what's trending.

(02:24:53):
Fell is back to you. You know, guys, I would
have really enjoyed upset Saturday a lot more if the
Big ten wasn't on the loose inside of a lot
of those games, especially my beloved Northwestern wildcast adopting a
team here. No, they got my money, Yeah, they got it.

(02:25:16):
They've done great things with it. By the way, there's
no question about it. Great facilities on campus with the
cash that I put in at Isaac Lowan Crowd where
you find him on Twitter, find me over at small Windomes,
Fantasy Sits Starts. It's all of that fun stuff coming
up in about a half hour, as well as some
random thoughts and factoids on games and things that I
wrote down as end of seasons in case you missed it.

(02:25:42):
You realize there were only seven thousand yard rushers a
year ago. Yeah, more of a back black community situation. Yeah,
second guy, third guy in for the goal line. Conversely, receivers,
running backs and tight ends and wide receivers finished with
at least a thousand receiving yards. We could do this
all day fun with facts as we will. We'll have

(02:26:04):
that up on the website and all of that at
Swall and Dome as we get going. But we've got
two games that are intriguing obviously. Look they're a whole slate.
I celebrate all two seventy two, as you know Bucky
from the worst game, And however you want to rank them,
rank them through the best. I will go back and
scour through them and force myself, even if I'm really tired,

(02:26:27):
to put the toothpicks in my eyes to get through
them all, because well We've waited a long long time
for this, but talk about Isaac being part of the
Chargers coverage. The Raiders and Chargers will get after it
a bit later and that's fun. But I want to
turn to one of the other teams in the division,
the Denver Broncos. You and I have talked about it

(02:26:47):
a bunch for the audience that's always changing expectations. Huge
on Russell Wilson. Kept seeing all these videos of him
a high fiving air coming out of the locker room,
going to uh the practice fee old and everything else,
scratching my head wondering what that is like, what is

(02:27:07):
he like? What is he doing? Yeah, no, look, I'm
all for method acting at all, but just seemed seemed
a bit at a little bit bit much. But you've
got some playmakers on defense and obviously wide receivers and
a backfield committee situation. I'm telling you, Javante Williams, fantasy owners,
you're gonna be sad because you're gonna see a lot
of Melvin Gordon. But for Russell Wilson and company, I

(02:27:29):
still can't get excited for their total in terms of
winning in this division and suddenly becoming a juggernaut like
so many would love to put Russell Wilson at the
top of the heap. Yeah, I have a tough time too,
because it's not necessarily a slight to him, because he
deserves all the flowers that he's always gotten. Right, he's

(02:27:50):
been a guy who has led a team to a
super Bowl, even though we would say that the complimentary
weapons around him certainly helped. The issue that I have
now with Russell is as they're locked into Russell for
the next six or seven years, however along the contract
is they're getting a Russell Wilson who's no longer the
athletic marvel that he was early and because he doesn't

(02:28:12):
have that same athletics as last you only rush for
a hundred and eighties something yards. Okay, so that's a
career low. He's not a what I call a rhythm
passer from the pocket, meaning that catch, fire delivered. That's
never been his game. His game has been off play acts,
and this game has been off scramble tosses, things that

(02:28:33):
um are unscripted. Well, as you get older, you lose
some of the ability to run away from defenders. You
now have to play more traditional quarterback and that hasn't
been his game. So I just worry as they get
down the line into this contract, will he be able
to play well enough playing a style that isn't really
his natural style. So that's my concern when it comes

(02:28:55):
to Russ. The other thing that you got into in
this latest column, and I'll make sure to link it
out year in short order. Five guys, you shouldn't count out.
We're going to veteran players that are to me pivotal
dogs of each of these squads as as laid out,
but I wanted to highlight one in particularly because it
ties to a team you're high on to come through
in a big way in battle Tom Brady and those

(02:29:18):
Buccaneers for supremacy and that's the New Orleans Saints and
wondering what we're going to get. I mean, I mean,
I've got my popcorn ready from Michael Thomas as he
returns from surgeries, injury and whatever that hiatus was. Yeah,
I think people have forgotten how good he was. Like Mike,

(02:29:38):
it's crazy because it's Vinceince twenty nineteen, since he was
at his best twenty nineteen, he was Offensive Player of
the Year back to back. Yeah, two one seasons backed
back one hundred season, he had three one thousand yard
seasons and he finished at twenty nineteen year was seventeen
hundred plus receiving yards, a dominant force that can move

(02:30:01):
inside and play as a jumbo slot receiver. Well, now
you bring debt force back and you put on side
a guy who also works fell inside and Jarvis Lantry.
You add a big play weapon in Crystal Lovey. You
have Alvin Kamara is still available to make things happen
out the backfield. What you need just to finish it
off is just Jameis Winston, notazi give it to the

(02:30:22):
other team. To me, that's a scary, scary proposition to
have to deal with this kind of team. Looking at
a great defense as well, we we know the principles there,
uh and the additions this offseason when we look at
Jamis Winston. I just questioned with Dennis Allen what that
offense is gonna look like. Are they gonna keep the

(02:30:42):
reins on them or does he get to open up?
Because one thing Michael Thomas does do he erased his
mistakes because he goes out and gets it right. That's
the one thing that I've always enjoyed watching him on
the perimeter or if he's moving towards the middle, it's
like he'll go out and get it as a post
to a lot of receivers waiting the ball for the
ball to find them. Uh So maybe he's a pivotal

(02:31:06):
cog in keeping the negative plays for Jamis Winston down
here in that regard as well. Yeah, if you give
the negative plays down, he has a chance. He has
chanced to do a bunch of different stuff because he's
talented enough to make it happen. When it comes to
the passing game and adding to deep ball element, because
I remember when they had Drew Brees, they couldn't push
the ball down the field, so they were playing half

(02:31:27):
who are basketball to the Y m c A. When
now you open up the floor, you open up the
the offense by being able to push the ball down
the field and not only helps the intermediate passing a
but it helps Alvin Kamar run the ball. Uh. It's
just a matter of Pete Carmichael and everybody getting on
the same page. Because they get on the same page.
Just it could be scary, It could be scary how

(02:31:47):
they perform. Yeah, we look at that squad on both
sides of the ball coming into the year, there's just excitement,
right because with with Winston under center, we've seen how
good he can and be at times, and even last
year we saw it in the opening week against the Packers,
and more talk was on what's wrong with the Packers

(02:32:08):
coming off of the Miles Tellers sojourns and everything going
on with Aaron Rodgers as opposed to wait, look what
they just did. They just boat raced him and Jamis
was at the helm, in control and never forced the issue.
Now you're looking at getting all of those principal pieces
back if Thomas is able to get through and stay healthy,

(02:32:30):
a LaVey on the outside, and then Camara. We have
no idea what long term issues are relating to off
field things, but at least for two looks like he's
ready to go. And they brought mark Ingram back. So
you have a guy in short yardage and goal line situation.
You don't need to deploy him a ton, but a
guy who's still capable as a number two and you

(02:32:53):
can trust to handle the mail. Like so many other
teams beyond the offensive line, it's just do you have
the running back you trust in in goal to ghost
situations and certainly New Orleans bringing him back. That's a
big piece for them, huge piece, physical running back to
go and compliment Alvin Kamara. He can catch the ball

(02:33:14):
out of the backfield, but he's not the threat in
the open field that Kamar is. But it gives you
two guys that you can throw at the defense, two
different styles that you have to prepare for. Makes defensive
coordinators go through a bunch of different things as they're
trying to get ready for the Saint's offense. This offense
is good, but I think the thing that is even
scarier about, uh the Saints is their defense. Their defense,

(02:33:36):
to me, is the calling card, is the reason why
they should be a team that we're talking about as
a Super Bowl contender. They have a ton of personnel
that can make it very, very difficult for opposing offenses.
I just like the team, and I think the team
is going well. We celebrate Cam Jordan, Who's gonna come
take my job maybe next week, I don't know. Uh
he might do both dominating on the defensive line and

(02:34:00):
obviously with the microphone he's shown us. You bring in
the honey Badger Marcus May who was good, very good
in spots for an otherwise hapless Jet squad for years.
And Marshawn Lattimore. I mean, you've you've got a secondary
that you can go toe to toe with most squads,
and and that's certainly something. Uh. The depth in the

(02:34:20):
secondary is lacking across most of the National Football League.
So advantage New Orleans as we look at the Super
Bowl odds, Bucky, Uh, going down the list of squads
that you can actually get a pretty good price on
those Saints forty two one right now in a lot
of books. So uh, making hay along the way. He's

(02:34:42):
Bucky Brooks on Mike Carom and coming up next we'll
close up shop. Uh. Taking a look at Kansas City
and what they do well with Tyreek Hill. Remember he
made the offense, or at least that's what he was
trying to tell us. I'll try to tell you why
I think it isn't so, and hopefully Bucky I'll agree
and we'll talk about it next year on Fox. Fox
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kick off good things. Give you all the particulars here
in just a moment, Bucky, we talked about it a
little bit last hour. But for those uh fresh in
fresh years and and thinking about matchups today, when we
look at Kansas City in Arizona, we got our popcorn
ready expecting some some fireworks. But the question is who's
catching the passes and how are these offenses going to run?

(02:36:08):
When you look at the Arizona side of things, Art
is gonna play, but he's limited. Rondale Moore is out,
DeAndre Hopkins is suspended, So you got Marquise Hollywood Brown.
You don't even have Chase Edward Edmonds to dump the
ball two out of the backfields, and now it's Eno
Benjamin alongside James Conner and then on the Kansas City side.
From everything I've been told, at least through the mouth

(02:36:29):
of Tyreek Hill, Uh, there's nobody to catch the ball
outside of Travis Kelsey anymore. And Andy Reid forgot on
the coach explain it to me, tell me like a
five year old. No, this more systematic, this version of
the kan City Chiefs. Uh won't be as I would say,

(02:36:49):
hot flying or maybe the the light of the score
board with big plays, but it would be more methodical.
When it comes to the way they get down. I
think if you think you go back to Andy Read
in the way that he first had the office when
he had Alex Smith in that year they went to
the playoffs. But yet zero wide receiver's call to touchdown
pass and Reads a brilliant coach and he's been able

(02:37:10):
to figure it out with the personnel that he said
at every stop, Philadelphia and Kansas City. I don't expect
it to slow down. Now. More creativity, more diversity, more
people touching the ball. Uh, less will be more when
it comes to it. I think this will help Pat
Mahomes really mature and become the quarterback that some of
us think that he can be in this league. Well,

(02:37:31):
let me ask you the obvious question. Then, Patrick Mahomes
warned fantasy owners not to expect greatness from an individual
week to week. Obviously, with Kelsey in a in a
different place by himself, if you were to say, try
to lay odds on on who becomes the hero from
a homes outside of Travis Kelsey, who would that be?

(02:37:52):
M M That's such a tough one because there's so
many guys. I say keep an eye on Juju Smith
Schuster because to me, he's the most reliable chain mover
that they have. The v S is the big plate threat.
He may not catch his mini passes, but I would
anticipate his average being sixteen seventeen yards per catch. Juju

(02:38:13):
may be the one Debt talls it up as the
possession receiver that Pet Mahomes begins to trust as the
chain mover. I think you choose the guy. Fox Sports
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(02:38:35):
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question for this NFL week one. Who's the big headliner
that has us all shaking our heads and leading all
newspapers and websites and talking heads tomorrow morning. Oh, which game?

(02:39:01):
Which players? Which game? Which big performance that maybe came
out of the blue or confirmed whatever someone might have
been carnival barking about for the last six months. Raiders
Chargers out of that game will get the storyline, and
it'd be one of two. It would be the Raiders
are legit on the Josh McDaniels, or it would be
that Brandon Staley has finally figured it out. Brandon stalely

(02:39:24):
has a lot at his disposal. They don't have J. C. Jackson,
but the defense is completely rebuilt and retool so he
can fix the defense, which was their busiest problem a
year ago. Justin Herbert is expected to be a superstar.
He's already played at that level, so If the Chargers
figured out and play well against the Raiders, that will
be the conversation. However, if they don't play well, the

(02:39:45):
conversation will go back to the Raiders and how good
they can be on the Josh McDaniels. And if both
of those teams looked great, then they go to Monday
Night and Uh, Russell Wilson, how good are the Denver
Bronco in comparison to everybody else in this division? Denver
coming in nearly a touchdown, favorite Seattle, Pete Carroll and

(02:40:07):
the little engine that could DK METC that's the guy
that got paid. And then you're looking at everybody else.
I don't know, so the curiosity certainly runs. It's just
an interesting slate. We talked about all those division games
and potential for chaos, uh, and everybody season hopes dash
right off the jump. But the first full Sunday, two

(02:40:30):
hundred seventy one games remaining, Bucky look forward to riding
through the season with you here on Fox Sports Radio.
Hey man, looking forward to it has been always been
a good time, and be a good time going forward
the rest of the year. All right, I'll be texting
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